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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Names for Saturnian hybrids. — At I find, in dealing with the 

 material relating to Saturniid hybrids, that many of the forms that 1 

 am summarising at length have no names, it becomes advisable, in 

 order that the new names I am using may not be forestalled, to publish 

 a list of those names that I have adopted. To these I add those 

 already legitimised : 



1. Platyitaniia hibr. grijjithsi i^ = Platysamia cecropia i xgloveri ? ). 



2. Platj/s{inii(i hibr. wati^oni {=Platysamin cecropia s x ceanothi ^ ). 



3. Platyaaiina hibr. heyeri ( = Platysa)uia ceanothi S x cecropia ? ). 



4. Platyi<(niiin hibr. nmericnna { = Platysumia colwtibia i x cecropia ? ). 



5. Actias hibr. i)iorto)n ( —Actiax lima ^ x selene ? ). 



0. Antherovii h\hr. peniyyaiiut, Wiiilly { = Antheraea peniyi i xyniiianiai ^ ). 



7. Aiithcraca hibr. kirJtyi [ — Antheraea pernyi i xroylei ^ ). 



8. Antheracn hibr. moorei [-^ Ant}tera£a roylei d xpernyi^). 



\). Satiiniid hibr. l)nr)ienia)ini, Stdt'ss. { = Snturjiin pavonia J xspini^ ). 



10. Satiinuii hil)r. hyhrida, Oohs. { = Satiiriiia !i2)iiii <^ xpaiwnia^ ). 



11. Sataniia hibr. cmiliae, Stdt'ss. \ = Saturnia pavonia ^ xpyri'i). 



12. Saturnia hibr. hyhrida-iiii'dia, Staud. { = Saturnia pyri s xpanonia ? ). 



13. Saturnia hibr. hyhrida-major, Ochs. { = Saturnia spinid xpyri ? ). 



14. Saturnia hibr. xchaufiiasi, Stdfss. { = Saturnia hornemanni i xpavonia^ ). 

 1.5. Saturnia hibr. t!tanilfussi, Wiskott ( = Saturnia emiliae i xpavonia ? ). 

 10. Saturnia hibr. rii^ii, Stdfss. { = Saturnia cudliae i xpyri ^ ). 



17. Saturnia hibr. schluinbergcri, Stdfss. ( = Saturnia bornciiianni ^ xpyri^ ). 



18. Saturnia hibr. di.vcyi ( = Saturnia borne)nan>ii ,i x spini ^ ). 



19. Saturnia hibr. coinple.ra ( = Saturnia titandfuxsi S xpavonia ? ). 



If any other Saturnian hybrids have been reared to the imaginal 

 stage, full references will be very acceptable, whether the form has 

 been named or not. — J. W. Tutt. 



Corrections in generic nomenclature. — A feAV errors or incon- 

 sistencies have crept into my work in the Traitmctidim of the Viti/ of 

 Lond(»i Kntonioloiiical and Natural History Socii'ty, Parts viii to x, and 

 should, in the interests of accuracy, be corrected. The following names 

 from Hubner's Toitanit'ti must of course be accepted provisionally, 

 until it has been definitely decided by lepidopterists to cast aside that 

 " bone of contention." (1) Heteromorpha, type racndcoccjiliala, L. 

 (2) Pseudoips, type bicolorana, Fuess. (3) Nycteola, type iindidamis, 

 Hb. { = )rrat/ana, Tr.). (4) Andria, type riiutla, L. (5) Meigen's 

 name Acrosema should supplant Phalcra (for bticephala, L.), this latter 

 being pre-occupied ; a few other changes, proposed by Professor Grote 

 in 111. Wochenxch. Ent., ii., pp. 388-90, can stand over, pending further 

 investigation. (6) Hama, Barr., ncc Stph., unfortunately cannot stand 

 for abjecta and xordida, as they were not in the genus as fii'st proposed 

 in 1829 ; Westwood, in 1840, selected basilinca, Fb., as type of Hama, 

 and he must be followed. Unfortunately also, I find none of the 

 Hiibnerian names are available for Mr. Barrett's genus, and I am 

 afraid it will have to be re-named. I therefore propose FAcoiumia, 

 n.nom., with type abjecta, Hb. ; and I leave it to those of my classical 

 friends who possess sufficient of the quality indicated, to favour me 

 with an " emendation " in due course. (7) Orthosia, Ochs., as I have 

 pointed out in a footnote [Tr. Citif Lond. Ent. Soc, ix., p. 73), was 

 restricted by Curtis to the Tieniocampid section through the citation 

 of instabilis [incerta, Hfn.), as type. For Guenee's Ortlmsia, purified 

 by the elimination of L>i/sc/iorista, Led., I therefore propose Leptidoffia 

 n.nom., type lota, CI. ; those who take an interest in etymology may 

 please themselves as to Avhether they refer the origin of this name to 



