110 Journal New York Entomological Society. |Voi. xi. 



Curtis designated Titiea potnonella Linn, as the type of Carpocapsa 

 Treitschke. This definite assignment of pomonella as type of Carpo- 

 capsa was perfectly legitimate when Ermenia, Kirby and Spence is 

 invalid and effectually settles the question as 'far d& pomonella is con- 

 cerned. That species must from that date rightfully be known as 

 Carpocapsa pomonella. Lord Walsingham evidently overlooked this 

 reference in 1897. 

 VIL Stephens, 111. Brit. Entom., IV, p. 119, 1834. 



Stephens makes Cydia a subdivision of his enlarged conception of 

 Carpocapsa including in \\. pomonella Linn., splendana Hiibn., gross- 

 ana Haw., aspidiscana Hiibn., thereby making the latter the type of 

 Cydia, pomonella being already constituted types of Carpocapsa and 

 grossana and splendana not being found in the original Cydia of 

 Hiibner. 



Thus Carpocapsa should stand for the genus of which, pomo/iclla 

 Linn, is the type, the Carpocapsa of Meyrick (Handbook Brit. Lep., 

 p. 515, 1895) and Rebel (Staudinger and Rebel, Cat. Lep. Europe, 

 II, p. 125, 1 901) and the Cydia of Walsingham (Proc. Z06I. Soc. 

 Lond., p. 130, 1897) and of Fernald (U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, 

 p. 471, 1903). 



Cydia Hiibner should be used for the genus of which aspidiscana 

 Hubn. is the type as rightly employed by Meyrick instead of Scmasia 

 of Rebel's Catalogue and instead of Tliiodia of Walsingham and 

 Professor Fernald. 



As a well-known entomologist, whose oral parts are developed on 

 more romantic curves than mine expressed it : 



" Fair Lady Pomonella was the heiress to all the apple orchards of 

 the Pacific Northwest. Count Cydia and Baron Carpocapsa were two 

 adventurous Austrian noblemen with a long black history. For many 

 years Lady Pomonella, under the care of her guardian Sir John Curtis, 

 had been keeping company with Baron Carpocapsa and it seemed that 

 their marriage was assured. But her godfather Lord Walsingham who 

 had heard of her early affection for Count Cydia discovered that 

 nobleman in retirement at Stephen's hermitage. He reintroduced 

 Count Cydia, who soon won Lady Pomonella' s affection and their 

 announcements were even published by Father Fernald in Dyar's Blue- 

 book of the best Society in spite of hermit Cockerell's earnest protesta- 

 tions. At this moment, an alleged English Knight Earl Erminea of 

 Kirbyshire, who had crossed foreign seas to fight the haughty Saracen, 



