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Eupithecia vulgata, Haw. — There seems very little doubt that 

 Hubner's figure of austerata is really meant for this species, and 

 that his name ought to supplant Haworth's. 



Eupithecia virgaureata, Dbld. — The original reference to this 

 name has been quite lost sight of, and it is generally stated to 

 originate in Newman's ' British Moths.' But it was validly pub- 

 lished several years earlier, namely, in ' The Zoologist ' for 1861, 

 p. 7566. This is fortunate, as it will just save the familiar and 

 appropriate name. It will be noticed that altenaria, Stgr., also 

 dates ostensibly from 1861,* and is given as a var. of virgaureata 

 in Stgr. Cat. (one of several cases of " the cart before the horse," 

 if his dates were correct). I am, however, by no means satisfied 

 that altenaria is co- specific with virgaureata, and regard the 

 question as an open one. 



Eupithecia cauchiata, Dup. (not cauchyata, as spelt by Stau- 

 dinger and Meyrick). — This species has never, to my knowledge, 

 been taken in Britain ; the name has crept into Meyrick's 

 ' Handbook ' through a misidentification of Guenee's pernotata. 

 This latter, according to the type-specimens, Staudinger declares 

 to be an obscurely marked satyrata (ab. subatrata, Stgr., which 

 should hence be known as ab. pernotata, Gn.). In any case, 

 Doubleday's unique British " pernotata^ is, as Barrett correctly 

 determined, an aberration of this variable species (satyrata, Hb.). 



Eupithecia haivorthiata, Dbld. (Zool. 1856, pp. 5139, 5141), 

 Sttn. (Man.). — Here, again, the origin of the name has been 

 overlooked, and it has been attributed to Stainton's ' Manual.' 

 The name of isogrammaria, H.-S., rested on an error of determi- 

 nation, and must be dropped ; isogrammaria, Tr., was plumbeo- 

 Idta, Haw. 



Eupithecia tenuiata, Hb. — Gregson erected a var. cinerce from 

 Morayshire (' Young Naturalist,' ix. 104, 1888), which might be 

 diagnosed as "major, cinerascens, vix strigata." 



Eupithecia iniurbata, Hb. = subciliata, Dbld. — The name sub- 

 ciliata first appeared in Doubleday's 1856 article on the genus 

 (Zool. xiv. pp. 5140, 5143), but even so it is far subsequent to 

 inturbata, Hb., which has been rightly revived on the Continent 

 (cf. Speyer in Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlii. 473 ; xlvi. 94). 



Eupithecia fraxinata, Crewe. — The original account of this 

 was, I think, published almost simultaneously in two places— 

 Week. Ent. i. p. 134 (6th December, 1862), and Ent. Annual 

 (? December, 1862). The question is of little importance, as the 

 same name is used in both. 



Eupithecia dodoneata, Gn. — This name was mentioned by 

 Doubleday in ' The Zoologist ' for 1856, before Guenee published 

 it ; but it was only a nomen nudum, therefore of no standing. 



* The date of p. 7566 of ' The Zoologist ' was about June, 1861 ; alten- 

 aria appears in the Stett. Ent. Zeit. for October-December, 1861 (p. 401), 

 hence probably published at the beginning of 1862. 



