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like the sub-genera into which Mr. Grote divides the section," we 

 know where we are, and as the discussion (which must have appeared 

 to occupy a space quite unproportioned to the value achieved, to 

 many) has led Professor Grote to work out the correct application of 

 the names according to the law of priority, the average entomologist 

 can now, by the application of a little common sense, draw up a satis- 

 factory nomenclature for working purposes. 



This, then, will be as follows : — 

 Family: APATELID.E. 



Sub-family: ACllONYCTINiE. 



Tribe: CUSPIDI. 

 AcRoxiCTA, Ochs. 

 LEPOKiNA, Linn. 

 Apatela, Hb. 



ACEHis, Linn. 

 CuspiDiA, Chapn. 



MEGACEPH,\LA, Fab. 



Hyboma, Hb. 



sTRiGosA, Fab. 

 Tki.ena, Hb. 



psi, Linn. 



TKiDENs, Schitf. 



JOCHE^RA, Hb. 



ALNi, Linn. 



Tribe: VIMINIDI. 

 Pharetra, Hb* 

 AURicoMA, Fab. 



MENYANTHIDIS, VisW. 



EDPHORBia;, Fab. 

 vnr. MYKica;, G. 

 RUMicis, Linn. 



ALBOVENOSA, GoZB. 



Tribe: BISULCIDL 

 Craniophora, Snell.1^ 

 LiGUSTRi, Linn. 



We think that lepidopterists could not do better, now that a final 

 conclusion has been reached, than use the above synonomy in their 

 work and communications to the magazines. — J. W. Tutt. April, 

 1896. 



Brotolomia iiETicuLosA DOUBLE-BROODED. — Mr. E. F. Studd has 

 fallen into a curious error (unless the printer has substituted another 

 name for the one he intended) in his note on Brotolomia uieticuloi^a 

 (Ent. Pu'c, vol. vii., p. 318), for Newman says most distinctly : — 

 " The moth appears in May or June, and a second brood is out in 

 September" (British Moths, p. 404). As far as my own very limited 

 experience goes, this common species is more abundant in the second 

 brood than the first. I have taken and bred it in April, May and 

 June ; and the second brood in August, September and October, in this 

 district. — W. Grover, Kent Villa, Harvey Road, Guildford. — Ajiril ISth, 

 1896. 



*Viminia and Arctonii/scin are generically synonymous with P/mreira. \Bisulcia 

 is generically synonymous with Craniophora. 



<irURRENT NOTES. 



Mr. G. C. Champion [E. M. M., May) adds Ainara faiiirlira, Zimm. 

 to the British list, from specimens captured in the neighbourhood of 

 Woking and Chobham (September 10th). It occurs in sandy places 

 on heath, chiefly in the spring and autumn, in company with the 

 extremely local A. infinia. 



Lord Walshingham has re-examined Zeller's series of Ari/j/rcsthia 

 illuiiiinatdla. The oldest specimens have on them two names — 

 " illwiii)utttila, Ti.," and the unpublished one, " ulabrrrimtila, Z." 

 The true illuwinatdla, as described in the his, 205 (1839), Lord 

 Walsingham considers, does not agree with Salvage's captures, which 

 may probably turn out to be an unsuffused form of A. praecocella. 



