168 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



rescues oblonga, Haworth (1809), from the obscure position assigned 

 it by Stephens and others, as a form of gemina, Hiibner, and adopts 

 it as a prior name for the species known as abjccta, Hiibn. 



Although Stephens was certainly in error in quoting femiginea, 

 Esper, as the type of his genus Busina, there is little doubt that his 

 specific description and generic characters were obtained from umhra- 

 tica, Goeze, = tenehrosa, Hiibn. It is to be regretted, therefore, that 

 Busina has been sunk in Amathes, Hiibn. (Cat. Phal. vi. 470), and in 

 the present volume Stygiostola set up for umhratica, Goeze. 



Under Oliga, Hiibner (t. strigilis, Clerck), we have Miana, 

 Stephens (t. Uterosa, Haworth), and Photedes, Lederer (t. ca2)tiunmila). 

 Other British species included in this genus, besides those usually 

 assigned to Mxana, are opJiiogramma, Esp., scoloiMcina, Esp., and 

 havorthi {hmvorthii, Curtis). 



Crymodes, Guen6e (t. cervina, Germar, = maillardi, Geyer, = exulis, 

 Lef.), is merged in Eremohia, Stephens (t. ochrole^cca, Schiff.). 



FissijJuncta, Haworth, =7/2;s^7ow, Schiff., and zollicoferi {zollikoferi, 

 Freyer), are both referred to Sidemia, Staudinger (t. speciosa, Bremer). 

 Testacea, Schiff., nickerlii, Freyer, and dtmierilii, Duponchel, which, 

 with two other species, Staudinger places under Apamea, O.-Treit., 

 are here retained in Luijerina, Boisduval (t. dumerili). 



Lithoxylea, Schiff., is the type of Xylophasia, Stephens (1829), 

 also of Se'ptis, Hiibn. (Verz., p. 243), and of Xylena, Hiibn. (Tent.), 

 but as this species is congeneric with liepatica, Linn., which is the 

 type of Parastichtis, Hiibn. (Verz., p. 212), the latter genus is adopted 

 for the species just mentioned and their allies. 



On the fifteen coloured plates are four hundred and eighty figures. 

 In addition to a systematic index at the beginning of the volume, 

 there is a very full alphabetical index (sixteen pages) at the end. 



OBITUARY. 



Edwin C. H. Davies belonged to that class of working-man 

 naturalist which is so fast dying out with the progress made by so- 

 called Nature Study in our modern educational system. He was born 

 at Porkellis, near Helston, in Cornwall, and had lived for thirty-two 

 years at St. Issey, where he filled the post of rural postman, doing a 

 twelve-mile round daily for the last sixteen years. As a volunteer he 

 became associated with Dr. Griffin, of Padstow, and it is from him 

 and Rev. J. A. Crawshay, his acting vicar for some months, that he 

 appears to have got his taste for natural history. Davies contributed 

 lists of the Ichneumonidse and Aculeate Hymenoptera to the Victoria 

 History of Cornwall, was interested in Coleoptera, &c., and added 

 botanical records to the ' Flora of Cornwall,' by F. H. Davey, F.L.S., 

 which will shortly be published. He died of consumption on 

 Jan. 12th last, aged thirty-seven years, leaving an aged mother and 

 young married sister. His Hymenopterous collection has passed to 

 Mr. W. A. RoUason, of Truro, who supplies these details. 



C. M. 



