RECENT LITERATURE. 79 



gebiete zu liegen (Mupe)." Moupin, however, is well known through 

 the researches of the late Pere David, =■■ and is one of the most interesting 

 districts of the world, at a great elevation, on the other side of the 

 Snowy Mountains of China (31° N., 101° E.j, near Makin on the 

 Yalong source of the Yang-tse-Kiang. / 



Pp. 58 & 107.— Colgar, Mel., is not equivalent t&Cohjar, Kirk. In 



founding this genus, I made it homotypical with the preoccupied genus 



f/Atella, Stal, stating the type to he^C. peracuta (Walker). As this was 



one of Stal's original species (1866, Berlin. Ent. Zeit. p. 394), and as- 



the genotype had not been fixed previously, my application of it cannot 



rightly be disputed. Walker 'S''7>»6'mc(tto does not fig^'e, however, in 



Melichar's idea of^'Cohjar, but in his application of Cromna, Walker. 



. Gromna, Walk., however, does not equal, in a restricted sense, iJromna, 



Mel., for the only species, originally included by Walker, is not found 



in Melichar's genus. The following synonymy will illuminate the 



puzzle : — y. 



\ 19 Phyllyphanta, Am. ^ Serv., 1843 ='^ Cromna, Walker, 1857. 



Type of the iovm^P. producta (Spiuola). Type of the latter, 



\ C. acutipennis, Walker. . ^ 



^ Colgar, Kirk., 1900 ^"'Atella, Stal., 1866 (preocc.) =' Cromna, 



/ Melich., 1902. Ty^^peracuta (Walker). 



S.^ Neomelwharia, n. *?. i^^Colgar, Mel., 1902, neo Kirk., 1900. 



Ty^, criientata (Fabr.). , 



P. ll^Y—Elidiptera, Spin., 1839 = Flatoides, 1843 = Helicoptera, 

 Am. & Serv., 1843. y'^ 



P. n^:-f-Cerfe7inia, Stal. (not Cer/enia). The original reference to 

 Spinola's 1839 genera is Eevue Zool. pp. 199-206. 



The genus Hansenia should be credited to me (as it is in the 

 index), and not to Melichar. My manuscript was sent in to the 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. early in 1900 (not at the end of 1901, as 

 printed), but was not published till January 24th, 1902. Melichar's 

 monograph was issued subsequently to this. Melichar has, however, 

 unfortunately followed my mistake of identifying the Pcecilopteraglaaca 

 of Kirby with^P. pidvendenta of Gneriu. The two have nothing in 

 comrnon, and while the former is from Ceylon, the latter is from 

 Mexico, and is rightly placed ixfOrmenis elsewhere in the monograph. 

 The synonymy oivHansetiia glaicca will be as follows : — 



Genus' Hansenia, Kirk., 1902, Journ. Bombay Soc. p. 53 ; Melich., 

 ^ 1902, Ann. Wien. Bd. xvi. pp. 195 & 228. 



Type, H. glauca (Kirby). v^ 



V^ Pceciloptera glauca, Kirby, 1891, J. L. S. xxiv. p. 154. '^Hansenia 

 imlverulenta, Kirk., p. 64; Mel., p. 229 {jd^d-^Pceciloptera pid- 

 verulenta, Guerin). 

 These discrepancies are, however, comparatively slight, and the 

 fact remains that for the first time we have lucid descriptions of all 

 the species — except some of the Walkerian — of which about one-half 

 are described as new. It is hoped that a considerable stimulus will 

 thus be given to the study of these beautiful insects. 



G. W. KiRKALDY. 



* I am indebted to Dr* Sharp for refreshing my memory oa this point. 



