106 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xi. 



ON THE GENERIC NAME OF THE CODLING 



MOTH.* 



By August Busck. 



When I lately (Proc. Wash. Ent. See, II, p. 235, 1903) described 

 a striking western variety of the codling moth as Cydia pomojiella var, 

 simpsonii, I used the generic name Cydia on the strength of Lord 

 Walsingham's conclusion (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 130) 

 that Cydia was the proper name for the genus, and I employed the 

 name without investigation the more confidently because it had been 

 adopted by our American authority on the Tortricidce, Professor C. H. 

 Fernald in his recent list (U. S. Nat. Museum Bull. 52, p. 471, 1903). 



Since then however Professor T. D. A. Cockerell has kindly called 

 my attention to a footnote in his bulletin on the codling moth (N. 

 INIex. Coll. Agr. Sta. Bull. 25, p. 47, 1898) in which he, through a 

 dexterous and logical manipulation of Lord Walsingham's own argu- 

 ments comes to a different result in favor of the long and generally 

 used name Carpocapsa, and being asked for my opinion about the 

 proper name to be used in a forthcoming departmental bulletin I was 

 led to go over the ground independently. 



As I come to the same result as Professor Cockerell in favor of the 

 time-honored Carpocapsa though on different grounds, I venture to 

 give these in the hope that it may lead to a much needed generally 

 adopted scientific name for this insect. 



I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Nathan Banks, whose 

 intimate knowledge of the old literature — so willingly imparted — has 

 helped me greatly in this study. 



I also wish to thank Professor C. H. Fernald who most generously 

 came to my assistance in the last moment, when he realized that I 

 had committed an excusable but griveous error, which he was able to 

 correct. 



Up to the year \^\'i pomonella Linne was placed in one or another 

 of the roomy genera Tinea and Tortrix. 



In that year Hiibner erected his genus Cydia (Verz. bekannt. 

 Schmett., p. 375) including three species, /r^w<v/(?//i:?, Linn., aspidiscana 

 Hiibn. and monetulana Hiibn. ( = hohefnvarfhiana, Schiffermiiller and 



* Read before Washington Entomological Society, May 14, 1903. 



