496 Lord Walsingham on 



Mr. Smith in the same locality having been received 

 through the kindness of the Honble. Walter Rothschild. 

 I regret that it is impossible to add illustrations to the 

 plate, which leaves several types to be figured at some 

 future time. A few corrections have been made in the 

 nomenclature of the genera, as in the case of Hysterosia 

 for Idiogr aphis, Zeiraphera for Steganoptycha, and Encelis 

 for Grapholitha, the reasons for which will be found fully 

 set forth where these names occur. I am painfully aware 

 that these few corrections touch the fringe only of a 

 subject uncongenial to my taste, but if any coDsistent 

 method is to be introduced into the system of nomen- 

 clature finally adopted for general use by students of 

 this and allied groups of Lepidoptera, it is a subject that 

 must be boldly faced and placed once for all upon a 

 sound basis. I have here endeavoured merely to indicate 

 the lines upon which such an attempt can safely be 

 made. 



TORTRICID^E. 



TORTRICINJE. 



PLATYNOTA, Clem. 



Platynota nigrocervina, sp. n. 



Antenna, $ , cinereous. Palpi cinereous, speckled with fuscous. 

 Head and Thorax cinereous, with some fuscous shading. Fore- 

 ivings, $ , f awn-ochreous, with a broad broken band of blue-black 

 scales (some in raised tufts) extending from before the middle of 

 the costal to beyond the middle of the dorsal margin ; a similar 

 band, but somewhat more mixed with the fawn ground-colour, 

 begins beyond the costal margin and joins the first band about the 

 lower angle of the cell ; one or two transverse fawn-coloured 

 streaks cross the apical portion of the wing to the anal angle, and 

 above it and between these, as well as among the broken spaces in 

 the dark bands, some lines of shining steel scales illuminate the 

 paler ground-colour ; cilia pale fawn, a slender reduplicated darker 

 line along their base. Exp. al., $ 20 mm. Nindwings reddish 

 fawn ; cilia grey, with a darker dividing shade near their base. 

 Abdomen fawn ochreons. Legs fawn whitish. 



$ In the larger female the black bands are reduced to incon- 



