446 C. Kitsema on Crinodes Sommeri 



adult male there are patches of a darker colour and of thicker 

 quills, indicating the coming of the winter coat. 



This species differs from the Gu^mul in having, at least in 

 summer, pale haunches and whitish legs. We have in the 

 British Museum the imperfect skin in winter fur of a female, 

 which Admiral Thomby, the brother-in-law of the Earl of 

 Derby, brought from the coast of Chili in 1849. I have 

 hitherto considered it a specimen of the Gudmul ; but it has 

 much more whitish on the rump and abdomen. It maybe the 

 winter coat of XenelapJms anomalocera^ or a third species of 

 South-American deer. 



The South-American deer called Guazus are Blastocerus 

 paludosus from Brazil and Paraguay, Furcifer antisiensis and 

 Xenelaplius anomalocera [X. leucotis, Gray, Cat. Buminant 

 Mammalia, p. 89) from the Bolivian or Peruvian Alps, Blasto- 

 cerus campestns and Huamela leucotts from Patagonia. 



LXIV. — On Crinodes Sommeri and Tarsolepis remicauda, in 

 answer to Mr. Butler^ s Remarks. By C. Bitsema. 



In the ' Annals ' of last October Mr. Butler rejects my opinion 

 concerning the synonymy of the above-named moths. 



It is, however, clear that the author, when he drew up the 

 description of Mr, Cornthwaite's insect, was totally unac- 

 quainted with Hiibner's Crino Sommeri^ and that it was only 

 after he saw my synonymic note that he compared the new (?) 

 moth with Hiibner's figm'cs, and endeavom-ed to find some 

 differences which might justify him in retaining his names. 

 Why otherwise did he not mention this very similar moth, or 

 indicate the supposed generic and specific differences when 

 describing the new one ? 



In the following lines I will refute the arguments used. 



Mr. Butler considers Grino Besckei the type of the genus 

 Crino, because this species is figm'ed before G. Sommeri. 

 But, if we pay attention to the characters ascribed by Hiibner 

 (' Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge,' p. 216) to this genus 

 (" Schwingen blass-sehnig, dunkelstriemig, mit glanzend 

 weissen Fleck en geziert'^), we shall see that this lepidopterist 

 really had in view the species called by him G. Sommeri, and 

 that this description, without any modification, applies to 

 Butler's Tarsolepis remicauda. With respect to G. Besckei it 

 is clear that Hiibner was not attached to the so-called type- 

 system, and consequently we have nothing to do here with the 

 last-named species. There is no doubt that Tarsolepis remi- 

 cauda ought to be transferred into the genus Grino^ Hiibner, 

 = Crinodes, Herrich-Schaffer. 



