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Poda's restrictiou (by eliminatiou) of the genei-ic name Tinea 

 to the rough headed clothes' moths has been accepted by all subsequent 

 authors. Both granella, L., and peJlionella are quoted by Geoffroy, 

 Hist, abrege Ins. Paris, II (1762), but Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 655, 667 

 (1775), subdivided Tinea, L., into Tinea (L.),F., and Alucita, F. {nee 

 L.), and while vot^uuwgpeUioneJIa in Tinea removed t/ranella to his new 

 genus, to which by an error of judgment he applied the Linnaean name 

 Alucita. By this action Pellioniclla, L., was constituted the type 

 of the genus Tinea, and it was cited as such by Lamarck, Syst. An. 

 sans Vert., 288 (1801). 



There appears to be no reason for objecting to the acceptance of 

 this species as the type, and if Linnseus' expression, " fronte prominula" 

 were used in the modern sense it might be taken that he himself indi- 

 cated that the true Tinece with rough heads constituted the typical 

 portion of his genus ; it is possible, however, that he intended to 

 refer to the projecting palpi of some of the species which he included, 

 but as his expression is ambiguous, we are bound to accept the limita- 

 tions of our predecessors, whose action restricted his assemblage of 

 heterotypical species to that generic conception which we now know 

 as Tinea, L. 



ALUCITA, L. 



Type — Alucita pentadactyJa, L. (Poda, 1761). 



ALUCiTiE, L., Syst. Nat., X, 496 (1758). 



" Alis digitatis fissis ad basin." Poda, Ins. Mus. Grsec, 94, pi. 

 II, 14 (1761), enumerated and figured one species only of the possible 

 types of this genus Pentadactyla, L., which action, three years after 

 the publication of the name, definitely fixed the type of the genus. 



Geoffroy, Hist, abrege Ins. Paris, II, 24-5, 90-3 (1762), created 

 the genus Pterophorus at the expense of Alucita, and placed the 

 following species in his new genus : 1, pentadactyla, L. ; 2, mono- 

 dactyla, L. (= didactyla, GeofCr.) ; 3, liexadactyla, L. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 671 (1775), adopted Geoffrey's name, in- 

 cluding Geoffrey's three types, but adding more species. 



Lamarck, Syst. An. sans Vert., 288 (1801), re-described Ptero- 

 phorus, citing as its type fentadactylus, L., F., &c., but this action was 

 not admissible, this species having already been constituted the type 

 of Alucita, L. 



Latreille, Prec. Gen. Ins., 148 (1796), created the genus Orneodes, 

 omitting to cite the type; subsequently, however. Hist. Nat. Crust. 

 Ins., Ill, 418 (1802) : XIV, 258 (1805), this omission was remedied, 



