30 [February, 



Stigmotiota coniferana, Ratzb., not iineommon in pine woods, Cvoftlutgen and 



Levcnsido Moor. perlepidana. Haw., abundant along the embankments of the 



Forth and Clyde Railway near Jamestown. roseticolana, Zell., scarce, Quarry 



Wood. 



Dicrorampha Petiverella, L., very comniou on the F. and C. Railway near 



Jamestown, flies readily in the afternoon. plumhana, Scop., Levenside Moor, flies 



in the sunshine. herbosann, Bar., very common, Crofthugen, Levenside, &c., 



flies principally in the evening, may be seen swarming along the hedgerows. 



Pyrodes Rhediella, Clerck, scarce. Hue G-len. 



Catoptria ulicetana, Haw., very abundant on furze. cana, Haw., common, 



Levenside, Woodside, &c. 



Trycheris nurana, Fb., common on Heracleum flowers, flies in the sunshine, 

 but may be taken at rest on dull days, or in the evening on the flower heads. 



Simaethis oxyacanthella, L., very abundant everywhere. 



Eupoecilia nana, Haw., common, Quarry Wood. atricapitana, St., scarce, 



Q.uarry Wood. maculosana, Haw., scarce, Crofthugen and Quarry Wood. 



angustana, Hb., abundant on moorlands. cilieJla, Hb., not uncommon on the 



railway banks near Jamestown. 



Xanthosetia hamana, L., scarce, Quarry Wood. 



Argyrolepia Hartmanniana, Clerck, scarce, Levenside Moor. badiana, Hb., 



scarce, Levenside. cnicana, Dbl., not uncommon, Crofthugen, Levenside, &c. 



Conchylis Smeathmanniana, Fb., scarce, Q.uarry Wood. straminea, Haw., very 



common and generally distributed. 



Aphelia osseana. Scop., not uncommon in marshy parts, Levenside, &c. 



Tortricodes hyemana, Hb., common, Cameron and Tullichewan. 



{To he continued). 



THE GENERIC NOMENCLATURE OF THE NOCTUA POPULARIS 

 OF FABRICIUS. 



BY LOUIS B. PROUT, F.E.S. 



Mr. McLachlan pointed out a few years ago (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxxii, p. 175) that the name Neuronia, Hb., wliich is applied to the 

 above species in many of our lists, was pre-occupied, and therefore 

 untenable, and that another generic name would be required. Mr. 

 Barrett, however (Brit. Lep., iv, pp. 133, 266), while avoiding the use 

 of the pre-occupied name, has also succeeded in avoiding the necessity 

 of a new one, having applied Heliophohus, Boisd., to popnlaris and 

 cespitis, and UlocJilcena, Led., of which the type is hirta, to hispidus. 

 This is satisfactory in so far that it corrects Lederer's erroneous re- 

 striction of Heliophohus to hispidus, and for some time I hoped it 

 might prove to be perfectly sound on the historical method of type- 



