1809.] 190 



Noctua which looks as though it should be au Arctiid — having smooth 

 shining fore-wings of a pale buff, with three white spots ringed with 

 black in the discal cell, and pale yellow hind-wings. My sister now 

 sends drawings of its larva — long and rather slender, bright yellow, 

 with a broad black band round each segment, the head and anal plate 

 more orange-yellow ; hairs black, long and apparently stiff — a creature 

 considerably resembling that of onv Acronycta aim ; but it is a looper 

 so completely that the under-surface of the body behind the true 

 legs is pressed closely against that portion in front of the prolegs at 

 every step, and even when at rest ; of prolegs there are six, well 

 developed, but apparently no indications of the usual pairs of the 

 seventh and eighth segments. This larva seems to be a general 

 feeder, but perhaps more particularly attached to grass, though found 

 also on Mimosa and low growing plants. Its cocoon is egg-shaped 

 and firm, spun up in a tuft of leaves of Mimosa^ which are drawn 

 closely around it. 



39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : 

 June, 1899. 



EEVISION OF THE NOMENCLATURE OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



AND 



JOHN HARTLEY DURRANT, F.E.S., Memb, Soc. Ent. de France. 

 {Continued from Vol. XXXIV, ^. 136). 



METZNERIA, Z. 

 = ^OLEOBOEA, Stph., = P ABASIA, Up. 

 CLEODOEA, Stph. 

 Type, Tinea lappella, L. (Crt., 1837). 

 ^GLEODORA, Stph. (partim). 111. Br. Ent. Haust. IV, 220 (1S34). 

 1. lappella, L. (— *silacella, stph. nee Wo.), and five other species. 

 Crt. (partim), Br. Ent., XIV, expl. PI. 671 (1887). 

 Type, lappella, L. [ = silacella, Hb. ? {QYt.),= silacea, II w. (Crt.)]. 

 Curtis cited " Tinea silacella, Hb. ?," as the type of " Cleodora, 

 Step.," and yet for many years the name has been applied to a genus 

 not containing any of Stephens' types, and has been attributed to 



Curtis ! 



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