NOMENCLATURE OF LEPIDOPTERA. 33 I 



It should be noted that the colour is omitted from only two of the 

 descriptions, monodactyla and hcxadactyla, and that Reaumur's 

 figures are quoted for both species ( ? were both species described 

 from Reaumur's figures). Only one species is recorded as from 

 'Svecia,' and it is therefore probable that this species was the 

 original type of the conception of Alncita, L." 



139. Meyrick (E.). i^ July i^gy. 

 [Vide Meyrick 129. Durraut.\ 



"Arising from this" [i.e. Meyrick's adoption of the lOth edn., 

 vide Reply 1 2, Durrant] " I can now assent to pcntadactyla as the type 

 of Alncita ; I think the point is not clearly established, but would 

 nevertheless conform to the general opinion." 



140. AURIVILLIUS (C). 

 [Vide Aurivillius 135. Durrani ?\ 



" In this case I will yield to the majority for the reasons put 

 forward by Lord Walsingham* and take pentadactyla as the type of 

 Alncita, L., but I am quite unable to see how PteropJiorns, Fabr. 

 1775 (Geoffr.), can be said to mean something else than Alncita 

 or have another type (cf § 7 f)."** 



[* Reply 138. ** Vide Aurivillius 81 f., 93, Durrant 94. Durrant.^ 



QUESTION VIII. 



"In the year 1850 Jones proposed a heterotypical 

 genus (say) Tortrix for two species (say) viridaiia and 

 atrana. 



In 1855 Smith (without reference to Jones) proposed 

 two monotypical genera (say) Heterognomon, type viridana 

 (p. i), and Pandeviis, type atrana (p. 2). 



In i860 Brown cited viridana as the type of Tortrix, 

 Jones. 



Give the synonymy of these genera with their types, 

 statingf which names should be retained, and the rules 

 governing your decision." 



