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gische Zeitschrift’ Dr. Karsch makes a new genus, Ortho- 
gonioptilum, for the reception of three species of moderately 
large African moths, to which he gives the specific names 
adiegetum, monochromum, and prox, and refers the genus to 
the Saturniide. This issue of the journal, though it is the 
fourth for the year 1892, was not published, as shown on the 
cover, until the middle of May 1893. <A note on page vi is 
‘dated May 10th, 1893. Imake remark of these facts because 
in the May number of the ‘ Entomological News’ for 1893, 
which was mailed to subscribers at the end of April, I have 
described three species which are congeneric with the three 
published by Dr. Karsch, referring them to a new genus 
which I propose for their reception and which I name Goodia 
in honour of my excellent friend Dr. Good, who has done 
more than any other collector in recent years to throw light 
upon the life-history of the Lepidoptera of Western Africa, 
and whose voluminous notes upon the transformations of a 
host of species I hope ere long to publish, with figures of the 
various larval stages. Inasmuch as the only test of priority 
is that of publication, and as my name and generic charac- 
terization were, in fact, published fully two weeks prior to 
those of Dr. Karsch, I feel justified in claiming priority for 
the name under the circumstances relating to it. Were it 
not for my desire in this way to commemorate the services 
of a pioneer observer in this field, I should be less tenacious 
of the claim of priority, which I may nevertheless in strict 
propriety make. It appears therefore that there are six species 
which belong to this genus of beautiful moths. They may 
be arranged as follows :— 
GooptA, Holland. (Orthogonioptilum, Karsch.) 
1. Goodia vestigiata, Holl. 
Goodia vestigiata, Holl. Ent. News (April 30th, 1895), p. 179, pl. ix. 
fig. 1. 
2. Goodia lunata, Holl. 
Goodia lunata, Holl. 1. c. p. 178, pl. ix. fig. 2. 
3. Goodia nubilata, Holl. 
Goodia nubilata, Holl. U. c. p. 178, pl. ix. fig. 3. 
4. Goodia (Orthogonioptilum) adiegetum, Karsch. 
Goodia (Orth.) adiegetum, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1892, p. 501, 
Taf. xx. fig. 1 (published May 15, 1893). 
