8 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



PEEOCCUPIED GENEEIC NAMES IN THE HOMO- 

 PTEEOUS FAMILY FULGOEID.E. 



By W. L. Distant. 



In working out the Indian Fulgoridse for my third volume 

 on the Ehynchota of British India, I have been compelled to 

 propose new names for some genera which bear names previously 

 used in zoology. As these are not yet published, it is perhaps 

 better to detail them at once, lest other substitutions should be 

 made, and further synonymy be created : — 



Vekunta, n. nom. 



Teniesa, Melich., Hom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 40 (1903).— Moll. 



Kinnara, n. nom. 



Pleroma, Melich., Hom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 41 (1903). — Spong. 

 and Ins. 



Vinata, n. nom. 



Erana, Walk., J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i. p. 151 (1857). — Aves. 



EPIBLEMA IMMUNDANA, F. E. 



By Eustace E. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S. 



Eeferring to my remarks on Epihlema immundana (Entom. 

 xxxviii. 311-12), I have just come across an interesting note by 

 Mr. A. Balding in Ent. Mo. Mag. xxi. 276 (1885), in which he 

 says that he bred this species in April from larvae collected — 

 evidently in the Wisbech district — in catkins (of alder ; see Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxi. 206) in the previous November, some of the larvae 

 having pupated during November, and others in the end of 

 January. This proves that the eggs laid by the second-brood 

 moths hatch out in the autumn, as stated by Sorhagen (Klein- 

 schmet. d. M. Brandenburg, 112), but I imagine that such early 

 pupation is abnormal, for even in this mild climate larvae are 

 obtainable in plenty, in catkins of alder, in the end of February 

 and beginning of March. 



Mr. Balding (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxi. 276) incidentally mentions 

 that two out of his last five first-brood moths were "devoid of 

 the white blotch " (the omission of any such note about the 

 first two makes it probable that they had the white blotch), thus 

 showing that the typical white-blotched form, for which Mr. 

 Thurnall has looked in vain in the first generation, outnumbered 

 the dark-blotched var. estreijeriana, Gn. In my own experience 

 of the early brood (see Entom, xxxviii. p. 311) the latter slightly 

 outnumbered the former. 



Norden, Corfe Castle : Dec. 12th, 1905. 



