326 APPENDIX A. 



QUESTION VII. c. 



'' What is the type of Tinea, L. ?" 



Analysis of Replies. 



Pellionella, I.. 



I Walsingham, 2 Meyrick, 3 Kirby, 4 Fernald, 5 Smith, 6 Aurivillius, 

 7 Grote (8 Scudder and 9 Staudinger may be assumed to concur). 



Result ~ \ Hampson is unable to determine, but it is to be hoped 

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that he will accept the consensus of opinion on this point. Durrani. 



REPLIES. 



117. Hampson (Sir G. F.). 12 Sept. 1896. 



" The type of Tinea, L. is gelatella, L. {congelatella, CI.) which 

 heads the list in the 12th edition, assuming that it agrees with the 

 definition of the genus, of which I am not sure." 



[Vide Durrant 125. Vide Hampson 126. Durrani.^ 



118. Walsingham (Lord). 



" Poda, Ins. Mtis. Graec. 94 (1761), enumerated two only of the 

 species placed in Tinea by Linnaeus — granella,!^., ?Lr\6. pellionella,\^. — 

 and this restriction of the genus has been accepted by all subse- 

 quent authors. Both species were quoted by Geoffroy (1762), but 

 Fabricius in 1775, while retaining pellionella in Tinea, removed 

 granclla to his new genus, to which, by an error of judgment, he 

 applied the Linnaean name Alncita ; by this action pellionella was 

 constituted the type of Tinea, and it was cited as such by Lamarck, 

 Syst. An. sans Vert. 288 (1801). Sir George Hampson considers 

 gelatella, L., to be the type of Tinea, L., but this species was unknown 

 to Linnaeus when originally describing the genus. It was first 

 published by Clerck under the name congelatella, and was not 

 included by Linnaeus until 1767 ^ 



119. Meyrick (E.). 



" I accept pellionella, L., as the type of Tinea, L., in agreement 

 with Lord Walsingham* ; adding that, as the name Tinea signified in 

 the common Latin acceptation a ' clothcs-inoth', and was doubtless so 

 understood by Linnaeus, it can only be applied to an insect with 

 the larval habits of pellionella and its near allies, and gelatella, L. is 

 therefore disqualified." 



[* Reply 118. Durra7it?\ 



