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2. — Genus Phenice. 



Phenice Westw. Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIX, p. 10 (1845). 

 Assamia Buckt. Ind. Mus. Notes, IV, p. 1 (1896). 

 Proutista Kirk. Entomolouist, 1904, p. 279. 



Sardis Kirk. Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, Pt. IX, p. 433 

 (1906). 



In 1845 Westwood founded his genus y/temce with type P. fritti- 

 laris, a West African species. In 1851 he described an allied species 

 from India, P. moesta, the type or cotype of which labelled by 

 Westwood himself is in the British Muséum, a figure faithfully 

 representing which is given in my IndianFihynchota(vol.IlI, p 297, 

 f. 142). In 1896 Buckton redescribed the species and genus under 

 the name of Assamia dentata, for which, the name Assamia being 

 preoccupied, Kirkaldy invented the new name Proutista and now 

 refers to the genus as « Proutista Kirkaldy». It bas been recognised, 

 even by Kirkaldy himself that dentata Buckt. = moesta Westw., 

 and it appears undeniable that if the species are the same the genus 

 must also be identical. This Kirkaldy disputes and writes : « Je ne 

 puis accepter l'opinion de Distant, quand il fait Assamia synonyme 

 de Phenice », This is hardly fair to D"" Melichar who stated the case 

 in the previous year(l) to that in which Kirkaldy invented his 

 new name, though without deferring to him. However Kirkaldy's 

 confusion is explainable by his apparent unfamiliarity with 

 Westwood's genus, he having quite recently redescribed it under 

 the name Sardis. 



The foUowing synonimy may be given : 



Phenice australis. 



Phenice australis Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), XIX, p. 397 

 (1907). 



Sardis maculosa Kirk. (nec Krûger) Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. 

 Assoc, Pt. IX, p. 433, t. XXVIII, ff. 4-6 (1906). 



Proutista Lumholtzi Kirk., Ann. Soc. Eut. Belg., 1907, p. 126. 



3. — Peregrinus maidis Ashm. — Kirkaldy states that this 

 species =^ D. psylloides Leth. = P. simplicia Dist. and that I had fai- 

 led to recognise Lethierry's description. He does not however make 

 any référence to D'' Melichar who (Hom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 101, t. II, 

 f. 22) gave a long description of the D. psylloides Leth. and placed 

 it in the genus Lihurnia. I followed Melichar and copied his des- 



(1) Hom. Fauu. Ceylan, p. 54 (1903j. 



