Ihteromera in the Banks Collection. 159 



20. Zonitis angulata. 



Cixntharis angulata. Fab. Mant. i. p. 168. Insula Amsterdam. 

 Zo7iitis anf/uhfera, Blanch. Voy. Pole Sud, Ins. iv. 1853, p. 191, pi. xii. 

 figs. 17,' 18. 



The type agrees perfectly with specimens in tlie British 

 ^Museum from Vavao and the Tonga Ishmds (Z. nnjidifera, 

 Blanch.). Amsterdam Is. is in the southern Indian Ocean, 

 so that the Fabriciau locality again appeal's to be erroneous. 



21. Zonitis iestacea. 



Mi/hhrh teitacea, Fab. Spec. Ins. i. 1781, p. 331. Sibiria. 

 Z<miti.'< prceusta, Fab. Ent. Svst. i. 2, 1792, p. 48. Italia. 

 Z<mi(i^ flava, Fab. Svst. Ent.' 1775, p. 127. In Oriente. 

 Zonitis Jiava, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 2, 1792, p. 49. 



This species was three times described by Fabricius liira- 

 self. The synonymy of the first two names given above was 

 recognized by him, but Z. flava, described from the collec- 

 tion of Prof. Forskahl, was retained as a distinct species in 

 his latest work (Syst. Eleuth. ii. 1801, p. 24). 



The reference to Z. flava is given incorrectly in the Cata- 

 logues as Ent. Syst. ii. {sic !) 1792, p. 49, but the name 

 really originates from 1775, and thus takes precedence as 

 the specific name. This precedence is recognized by Reitter 

 (Fauna Germ. iii. 1911, p. 397). bnt the name is not adopted 

 by Borchmann in his recent Catalogue of this family (1917). 



22. Cissites testacea. 



Li/tnexylon testaceum, Fab. Spec. Ins. i. 1781, p. 256. Ilabitat . 



Horia testacea, Fab., Oliv. Ent. iii. 1795, no. 53 Ms, pi. i. fior. ^ « ( J). 

 Horia cephulctes, Oliv. \l)it. iii. 1795, uo. 53 bis, pi. i. fig. 3 (J ). 



This type has already been stated bv Dr. C. J. Gahan 

 (Ann. &'Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii. 1908, p.' 201) to be the ? 

 of an African species probably identical with Horia cephalotes^ 

 Oliv., H. seneyalensis. Cast., and Cissites macrognatha^ P'airm. 

 Indeed, it is doubtful whether atiy of the so-called species of 

 Cissites described from Africa is more than a form, with 

 greater or less development of the head, of the one species j 

 this development varies greatly even in a series from the 

 same localty. (N.B. — C. nitida. Gab., of Borchmann's Cata- 

 logue belongs not to Cissites but to Huria, as stated by its 

 describer.) 



AVhen defining the genus Horia (Mant. i. 1787, p. 1G4), 

 Fabricius had before him an insect from Tranquebar sent 



