328 APPENDIX A. 



QUESTION VII. d. 

 "What is the type oi Alucita, L.?" 



Analysis of Replies. 



Fentadactyla, L. 



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

 7 Aurivillius, 8 Grote (9 Scudder and 10 Staudinger may be assumed to 

 concur). 



Result — ; all agree. Dicrrant. 

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REPLIES. 



127. Hampson (Sir G. R). 12 Sept. 1896. 



"The type of Alucita, L. is moiwdactyla, which heads the list in 

 the 1 2th edition and agrees with the characters given." 



[Hampson subsequently accepted pentadadyla as the type ; vide 

 Hampson 137. Ditrratit?\ 



128. Walsingham (Lord). 



"Poda, his. Mils. Graec. 94, PL 11. 14 (1761), three years after 

 the publication of Alucita, L., constituted pentadadyla, L., the type 

 of this genus." 



[Vide Walsingham 138. Durra7it.'\ 



129. Meyrick (E.). 



"As I reject Poda's restriction (1761), and regdivd pentadactylus, 

 L. as the type of Pterophorus, I hold that the type of Alucita, L. is 

 vwuodactyla, L." 



[Vide Walsingham 138 — Meyrick (18 July, 1897) agreed to accept 

 pentadadyla as the type; vide Meyrick 139. Durrani. '\ 



130. Kirby (W. F.). 



" I have not access to Poda : but I think Lord Walsingham's 

 views* respecting the type oi Alucita are sound. Geoffroy's types of 

 Pterophorus were pentadactylus, didactylus and hexadactylus ; and if 

 the first is taken as the type of Alucita, Linn, and the last as that 

 of Orneodes, Latr., didactylus will remain as the type of Pterophorus, 

 as actually fixed by Latreille, Hist. Nat. III. p. 418 (1802). 



[* Reply 128. Durrani.'] 



