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



To put it in more schematic form and in chronological order : 



I. Hiibner, Verz., p. 375, 1818. 

 Cydia Hiibner. 

 poinonella Linn. 

 aspidiscana HUbn. 



inonetulana Hiibn. (^ = cana Haw. =.hohen7uarthiana Schiff. ). 

 All three species belong to different genera ; no type indicated. 



n. Kirby & Spence, Intr. Ent., HI, p. 123, 1826. 

 Erminea Kirby 6^ Spence. 

 pomouella Linn. 

 This being the first restriction of Cydia and poinoiiclla being the 

 only species mentioned in the genus it must be the type of that genus, 

 but as the name Erminea was preoccupied in another sense by Ha- 

 worth [Lep. Brit., HI, p. 512, 18 12] this name cannot be employed 

 for pomonella. 



The date of Erminea Haworth is given by C. O. Waterhouse in his Index Zoolo- 

 gicus, 1902, as 1828, the correct date of Volume IV of Haworth's Lep. Brit., on the 

 first page of which (p. 512) the genus appears. This would make Erniinea Haworth 

 subsequent to Erminea of Kirby and Spence, whose name thus would stand, but 

 Professor Fernald informs me that part of that particular page (512) was published 

 already in Haworth's Volume III, 181 1, and subsequently republished as the first 

 page of Vol. IV. 



Professor Fernald writes (letter of May 26, 1903) : " Erminea was first estab- 

 lished, so far as I know, by Haworth on the last page of his Lepidoptera Britannica, 

 which was published in 1811. The genus was described and the species evonymella 

 was given with its synonymy and description and then irrorea was given with the 

 Latin diagnosis, which was all there was room for on this page." 



" Part IV of the Lepidoptera Britannica was published in 1828, as shown on the 

 outside cover of my copy, and also the date is given on the last page in this part. 

 Page 512 was reprinted as the first in Part IV. The author in the postscript at the 

 end of the work gives his reason for doing this. Waterhouse evidently found Erminea 

 on the first page in Part IV, but overlooked the fact that it had already been printed 

 in Part III. Tutt in his British Lepidoptera has made the same error. My copy is 

 in the original parts, a condition in which the work is now rarely found." 



I should have been able to find this state of affairs out through a more careful 

 perusal of Stainton's Cat. Brit. Lep., Ill, 1851, on which work, together with those 

 of the modern authorities, I depended for the date of Erminea Haworth. As how- 

 ever the only reference to Erminea in the index of Stainton's work is to page 34 and 

 there is given the year 1829 as the date for the identical page 512 on which Erminea 

 is erected it did not occur to me to look further, before aroused by Professor Fernald' s 

 letter. On page 36 Stainton gives the date for page 512 as 1812 and 1829 and on 

 page 37 the single date 181 2. 



