174 [August, 



ployed Momplia Hb. as a subi^enus under Telea Stph., for caesiella 

 Hb. 360, with which he associated lutarella (Hb. ?) Stph. and sioh- 

 fasciella Stph., remarking of caesiella " this species forms a portion of 

 the genus Sioammerdamia, Hb." The use of Mompha Hb. in this 

 sense by Stephens being perfectly legitimate Curtis [Br. Ent. 16 

 expl. PI. 735 (1839)] would be quite justified in regarding Stephens' 

 usage as a restriction eliminating conturbatella Hb., and in de- 

 scribing LaYerna gn. u. for OChraceella Crt. and its allies. Herrich- 

 Schaffcr could not subsequently, in 1853, alter the usage of Mompha 

 to the detriment of Laverna Crt. — a valid geneonym accepted by all 

 authors except Meyrick, Kebel, and Uyar. 



Meyr. 11 B. Br. Lp. 640, 678-82 no. 14 sp. 1-12 Tf. 679 (1895); 

 Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 186-7 no. 398 sp. 3576-91 (1901) ; Dyar 

 Bull. US. GG. Surv. 52 541-3 sp. 6148-68 (1902). 



Type 3 Wilsonia brevivittella Clms. (Clms. 1864). 



VViLSONiA Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 428-9 (1864). 



1 (Type) breyivittella Clms. 



Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. xiii, 253-4 (1872) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. 



Surv. 4 166 (1878) ; Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 218 (1903). 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



June 10th, 1909. 



{To be continued). 



A GIGANTIC NEW SPECIES OF ORNEODINA (LEP.) s 

 ORNEODES DOHERTYI sp. ii. 



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



Antennae ^evra^te and minutely ciliatc in ^ ; pale ochreous. Palpi 

 porrect, nearly as long as the head and thorax ; whitish ochreous, 

 suffused with dark umber-brown externally. Head whitish ochreous, 

 sprinkled with dark umber-brown. Thorax dark umber-brown, the 

 tegulae sprinkled with pale ochreous. Forewings mottled with golden 

 yellow and dark umber-brown, intermixed with lines of shining 

 whitish cinereous ; along the costa and apical lobe marked with alter 

 nate broad brown and narrow whitish ochreous spots, the latter num- 

 bering fourteen or fifteen, including the apex ; a golden yellow line 

 runs down the middle of the apical lobe, the dorsal cilia mixed dark 

 brown and silvery whitish, shading to ochreous at the apex : the main 

 feature of the forewing-markings is a broad dark brown median band, 

 outlined with silvery whitish on either side, and preceded and followed 



