134 LEPIDOPTERA. 



fruit-trees, shrubs and greens (for the notions of many of 

 them on gastronomy coincide pretty nearly with our own, 

 barring the matter of cooking their esculents), what is the 

 good of makino^ such a fuss in their favour ? 



NONAGRIA EXTREMA, Hiibucr, verSUS N. CONCOLOR, 



Guenee. 

 ^^Extrema in extremis " (I cannot say whether this is an 

 original remark of mine or a quotation, but at any rate) 

 Extrema is in extremis — unless it can effect a partnership 

 with concolor as senior in the firm. Dr. Staudinger has 

 been at great trouble to solve the knotty point as to what 

 Hiibner's extrema really was. He has actually seen the 

 original specimen from which, he has no reason to doubt, 

 Hiibner's figure was copied, and he comes to the conclusion 

 that it and Mons. Guenee's concolor are identical, but is 

 evidently strongly of opinion that Hiibner acted very un- 

 wisely in bringing forward extrema from the knowledge of 

 a single example. For my part it seems that it would be 

 better to let extrema drop. 



ACIDALIA MANCUNIATA mihi = A. PINGUEDINATA, 



Zeller. 



While congratulating myself on having introduced a new 

 Acidalia to the notice of the British public, I am quite 

 content to sink the name that was, at the time, bestowed 

 upon it. 



Professor Zeller writes me, " Mancuniata = oloraria^ 

 Rssl. = pinguedinata, Zell., which I think is the oldest 

 name (1847). As asbestaria probably denotes only a large 

 variety of the same species, the amount of names is not 

 small for one and the same insect." 



