128 Note on a name in Entomology. 



XIV. — Note on a name in Entomology proposed by the late 

 Coleman Townsend Robinson. 



By AUG. R. GROTE, A. M. 

 Read April 19, 1875. 



It was my good fortune to have known somewhat intimately 

 the late Mr. Coleman T. Robinson, latterly of New York 

 city, who contributed to the Annals of the Lyceum of Nat- 

 ural History (vol. IX) two short papers on North American 

 Moths, and previously, in conjunction with myself, a longer 

 communication, in the Eighth Volume of the Annals, on the 

 same subject. I was personally associated with Mr. Robin- 

 son from 1864 to 18G8, and met him again for a few days 

 in 1870. This was the last time that I had the pleasure 

 before his premature death in 1872.* 



Although Mr. Robinson had pursued his studies in Nat- 

 ural History somewhat fitfully, I know that he has performed 

 some good work on the smaller moths, and especially on the 

 Tortricidw. The first part of his projected Revision of the 

 North American species of that difficult group appeared in 

 the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 

 Vol. II, 1869, and I have been anxious to discover his un- 

 finished manuscripts for the second part, which I know were 

 in existence. His and my owU joint collections passed into 

 the Central Park Museum after Mr. Robinson's death. At 

 this moment I can only find a brief record of his study of 

 the following species, belonging to the Pyralides. 



Siparocerat nobilis, Robinson. 



$. The type of this new genus and species is in the Central Park 

 Museum. It is allied in size to Fabatana oviplagalis, as well as in orna- 



* A list of the scientific papers published by my late esteemed friend, under his sole 

 signature, was given by me in the fourth volume of the Canadian Entomologist, pp. 

 109-111, June, 1S72. 



jThis seems to have been the original writing of the generic term; in the collection 

 at the Central Park the name is written " Callocera." 



