168 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
rescues oblonga, Haworth (1809), from the obscure position assigned 
it by Stephens and others, as a form of gemina, Hitbner, and adopts 
it as a prior name for the species known as alyecta, Hiibn. 
Although Stephens was certainly in error in quoting ferruginea, 
Esper, as the type of his genus Rusina, there is little doubt that his 
specific description and generic characters were obtained from wmbra- 
tica, Goeze, = tenebrosa, Hiibn. It is to be regretted, therefore, that 
Rusina has been sunk in Amathes, Hiibn. (Cat. Phal. vi. 470), and in 
the present volume Stygiostola set up for wnbratica, Goeze. 
Under Oliga, Hiibner (t. strigzlis, Clerck), we have Miana, 
Stephens (t. literosa, Haworth), and Photedes, Lederer (t. captiuncula). 
Other British species included in this genus, besides those usually » 
assigned to Miana, are ophiogramma, Esp., scolopacina, Hsp., and 
havorthi (haworthiw, Curtis). 
Crymodes, Guenée (t. cervina, Germar, = matllardi, Geyer, = exulis, 
Lef.), is merged in Hremobia, Stephens (t. ochroleuca, Schiff.). 
Fissipuncta, Haworth, =ypsilon, Schiff., and zollicofert (zollakofert, 
Freyer), are both referred to Sidemia, Staudinger (t. speciosa, Bremer). 
Testacea, Schiff., nickerlii, Freyer, and dumeriliz, Duponchel, which, 
with two other species, Staudinger places under Apamea, O.-Treit., 
are here retained in Luperina, Boisduval (t. dwmeriit). 
Lithorylea, Schiff., is the type of Xylophasia, Stephens (1829), 
also of Septis, Hibn. (Verz., p. 243), and of Xylena, Hitbn. (Tent.), 
but as this species is congeneric with hepatica, Linn., which is the 
type of Parastichtis, Hiibn. (Verz., p. 212), the latter genus is adopted 
for the species just mentioned and their allies. 
On the fifteen coloured plates are four hundred and eighty figures. 
In addition to a systematic index at the beginning of the volume, 
there is a very full alphabetical index (sixteen pages) at the end. 
OBITUARY. 
Epwin C. H. Davies belonged to that class of working-man 
naturalist which is so fast dying out with the progress made by so- 
called Nature Study in our modern educational system. He was born 
at Porkellis, near Helston, in Cornwall, and had lived for thirty-two 
years at St. Issey, where he filled the post of rural postman, doing a 
twelve-mile round daily for the last sixteen years. As a volunteer he 
became associated with Dr. Griffin, of Padstow, and it is from him 
and Rey. J. A. Crawshay, his acting vicar for some months, that he 
appears to have got his taste for natural history. Davies contributed 
lists of the Ichneumonide and Aculeate Hymenoptera to the Victoria 
History of Cornwall, was interested in Coleoptera, &c., and added 
botanical records to the ‘ Flora of Cornwall,’ by F. H. Davey, F.L.5., 
which will shortly be published. He died of consumption on 
Jan. 12th last, aged thirty-seven years, leaving an aged mother and 
young married sister. His Hymenopterous collection has passed to 
Mr. W. A. Rollason, of Truro, who supplies these details. 
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