NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 93 
Erastria latireptana = Miana semicana, Walk., from the 
United States, has the characters of a Bryophila. 
Erastria punctifera, Walk., described from a headless example, 
is an Orgyia, or a closely allied genus of Liparide. 
Acantholipes acervalis, Swinh., is one of the ‘ Trifide,” and 
must be referred to Pradatta (Heliothide). 
Thalpochares argentifrons, Butl., T. triangularis, Warr., 
Eustrotia dividua, Grote, and Bankia opella, Swinh., are nearly 
allied species, and should, in my opinion, form a new genus of 
Acontiide: they do not belong to the Hublemmide, though out- 
wardly resembling them, as the primaries have a distinct, though 
short, accessory cell. All of the species have the basal area of 
the primaries terminated by a straight transverse line; the 
genus comes nearest to Hulocastra: it may be called Ortho- 
strophia. 
Thalpochares grisea, Esch. (also labelled T. pallidula and 
aruta by Zeller, though it has nothing in common with Herrich- 
Schaffer’s species), and JT. himmighoffeni, Mill., are narrow- 
winged species, having straight porrected palpi with very short 
terminal joint: they may be called Leucoblemma. 
(To be continued.) 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
Barsarous Latinrry.—Why should we entomologists incur the ridicule 
of classical scholars, not to say average schoolboys, by the astounding 
names we give to our insects? There is a case in point (for which, how- 
ever, you are not responsible) in Entom. xxv., page 35, where occurs the 
word Thulei. What in the wide world is Thulei? Am I wrong in 
assuming that it is meant for the genitive case of Thule, since “ Ultima 
Thule” is the accepted Latin for Shetland, and the insect in question 
comes from there? If this be so, then may not we English entomologists 
at any rate cease to run the risk of raising the ghost of Cicero by our 
barbarous Latinity, and, by way of a beginning, adopt for our moth the 
proper genitive of its locality, which is Thules ?—W. Craxton ; Winch- 
field, Feb. 6, 1892. 
[Some months ago this name was referred to ata meeting of the South 
London Entomological and N. H. Society, and Mr. Jenner Weir then 
pointed out that the proper genitive was Thules and not Thulei.—Ep.] 
GREEN AND Brown Pup# or Papitio. — The observations recorded 
by Mr. J. L. Bonhote (Entom. 44) are decidedly of interest, though the 
same sort of thing has been reported before (see Entom. xxiii. 226). If it 
is really a fact that certain species having both green and brown pups 
behave in this way, the green emerging the same year and the brown 
wintering, it surely throws light on this often discussed form of dimorphism. 
During the summer both sorts, but especially the green, may be sufficiently 
protected by the foliage, but in winter the green variety would be very con- 
spicuous. Thus there is obviously some advantage in the early emergence 
ENTOM.—APRIL, 1892. K 
