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August 21st, 1892, at Bloxworth; and Barrett swept about a dozen 

 from alder on July 31st, 1869, at Eanworth. Milliere strangely 

 records it as occurring in May, at light, at Cannes. 



LOCALITIES. DORSET: Bloxworth (Cambridge), Glanvilles Wootton (Dale). 

 DURHAM: Darlington (Sang). HANTS: Lyndhurst (Boyd), New Forest (Digbyj. 

 HKUKFORD : Woolhope (Wood). LANCASHIRE : Preston (Threlfall). NORFOLK : 

 Norwich (Barrett), King's Lynn (Atmore), llanworth (Barrett). SUFFOLK: nr. 

 Lowestoft (Boyd). YORKS : Scarborough, common (Wilkinson), Wheatley Wood, 

 nr. Doncaster (Corbett). 



DISTRIBUTION. France : Cannes (Milliere). Scandinavia : South 

 Sweden (Boheman), Kullaberg (Wallengren). 



Superfamily III : COCHLIDIDES (= EUCLEIDES). 



This superfamily consists of two .well-marked families, the Eudcitlae 

 and Cocltlididae. In the earlier part of this volume we have called 

 the superfamily EUCLEIDES, but we are now authoritatively informed 

 that the correct name to use is COCHLIDIDES. Walsingham has 

 shown that the Tentamen names of Hiibner were published at 

 least by 1806. Cochlidion, therefore, becomes the correct generic 

 name for avdlana (testudo), which is stated to be the type of the 

 family, etc., the correct family name for the species allied to C. a edict na 

 being Cochlididae, and the superfamily including it, COCHLIDIDES. It 

 is to be hoped that no further change may be necessary before this 

 volume is finished. Kirby remarks that Cocklidion, Apmla and 

 Limacodes are co-typical and, therefore, absolutely synonymous. 



The above explanation may make a note on the leading group 

 names advisable. In 1802 (lint. Nat., iii., p. 407), Latreille included 

 the group under the name Apodes. In 1806 (Tentamen) Hiibner 

 designated Cochlidia as a group name, but without diagnosis, and 

 about 1822 (Verz., pp. 397-398), he constructed the family (stirps) name 

 Cochliiliae, In 1829 (Intl. Metli., p. 57), Boisduval applied the term 

 Cocliopudi (genus : Limai-odex) to these insects, a name followed by 

 Herrich-Schttfter, and in 1840 (Gen. et Intl., p. 81) diagnosed the group 

 under the name Coclinpodrs, corrected by Agassiz (Xoin. Zool., Index, 

 p. 92) iii 1846 into Gochliuimdes. Stephens, in 1835 (llhw., iv.,.p. 420), 

 modified Hiibner's name into Cochlidae, whilst Stainton,in 1857 (Man., 

 i.,p. 168), modified Boisduval's title into Cochliopodae, and Staudinger, 

 in 1871 (Cat., p. 62), altered it to Cochliopodidae. In 1844 (Cat., p. 84), 

 Duponchel, apparently utilising Latreille's name Limacode (Fain. \t., 

 p. 474), renamed the group Limacodidae, a name since adopted by Kirby. 

 In 1894 (Journ. New York Ent. Soc., p. 173), Neumoegen and Dyar 

 called the family Eudeidae, because " the generic names Liinacudr* and 

 Cochlidion have become synonymous." In 1895 (Handbook, p. 224) 

 Meyrick renamed the group Heterogeneidae, and in the same year (>S'//.s. 

 Nat. Hildesiae, p. 8) Grote called it Apodidae. We have now reverted 

 to Hiibner's name, Cochlidia, which is modified so as to meet modern 

 views that all family terminations should end in " idae," and super- 

 family terminations in "ides." 



It will be understood from the above that various authors have 

 used the terms Cochliopodids, Limacodids, Heterogeneids, and 

 Eucleids in precisely the same sense, and that these names have 

 comprised the species included in this superfamily as a whole. To 

 prevent confusion, we have adhered mainly in this chapter to the term 

 " Eucleid " when used in this comprehensive sense, this name having 

 been thus applied in all the earlier chapters of this volume, 



