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is evidence that this character is variable in certain " pugs " 

 (cf. Dietze and Bastelberger, ' Iris,' xiv. 140-1) ; in any case, 

 the dissonant element incorporated by Meyrick {tersata, vitalbata, 

 and allies) must be removed on larval and other characters, and 

 form part of the genus Ccenocalpe = Phibalapteryx. The British 

 "pugs" which belong to Eucymatoge, according to Meyrick, are 

 togata, subnotata. and scabiosata, and it needs a little faith to unite 

 these, while isolating them from the rest, on larval characters ; 

 perhaps togata alone would make a better genus. 



Chloroclystis, Hb. (Verz. p. 323, type coronata, Hb.) seems a 

 valid genus, is accepted by Staudinger, and ought to be used in 

 Britain for our three green species. The same remarks apply 

 to Gymnoscelis, Mab., for pumilata, except that this has not been 

 accepted by Staudinger. It is interesting to observe that Mr. 

 F. N. Pierce, of Liverpool, who is examining the genitalia of the 

 group, considers the harpes of Gymnoscelis pumilata to constitute 

 it a group by itself, and also places Chloroclystis as separate from 

 the main groups. 



As regards the synonymy of the species, some corrections 

 which have been made by Dietze, Bohatsch, and others on the 

 Continent, and accepted in Sta'udinger's new edition, have not 

 yet been introduced into any authoritative British list ; whilst 

 certain other necessary corrections have been made still more 

 recently, or will be here made public for the first time. In this 

 connection I shall include also several bibliographical emenda- 

 tions which have escaped the notice of our German confreres, 

 especially concerning our early British work at the genus. We 

 English have been the worst of bibliographers, and I am really 

 not surprised that at least four species, perhaps more, have not 

 their original description cited in Staudinger's ' Catalog,' while 

 some varietal names have been entirely overlooked. I shall not 

 separate the British references from the non-British, but shall 

 take the species in the sequence in which they occur in Stau- 

 dinger. 



Eupithecia rcederaria, Stndf. (1888). — Dietze has discovered 

 that an older name applies here, namely, liguriata, Mill. (1884) — 

 cited with a query as synonym of distinctaria, H.-S., Stgr. -Rebel, 

 pt. ii. p. 256. 



Eupithecia abietaria, Goeze. — Dietze has shown (' Iris,' xiv. 

 139) that this name really applies to togata, Hb., not to strobi- 

 lata, Hb., ?Bkh., to which it has long been referred. German 

 entomologists are now using abietaria in the corrected sense, but 

 fortunately the familiar name of togata really stands unimpaired. 

 Phalcena Geometra abietaria, Goeze, 1781, was a homonym, in- 

 validated by Geometra abietaria, Schiff., 1776 {=ribeata, CI.), and 

 the first valid name imposed was Hiibner's. 



Eupithecia insigniata, Hb. — Hiibner's name (Beitr. ii. pt. iv. 

 p. 97) is at least two years older than Borkhausen's consignata, 



