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tioned call for a rejoinder by myself. Dr. Dyar's review, con- 

 sisting as it does largely of personal items, may be advantage- 

 ously disregarded. Mr. Bethune-Baker comments on the ar- 

 rangement of Aegeriidae in our ''Check List" : in this we fol- 

 lowed, more or less blindly, Mr. A. Busck's Synoptic Tables 

 of the group published in 1909 fProc. Wash. Ent. Soc, xi. 

 115) and must refer him to Mr. Busck personally for further 

 details. Sir George Hampson charges that the type of the 

 genus Phytoinetra Haw. cannot possibly be aenca as specified 

 by Westwood, since it was based on larval characters, the only 

 two larvae known to Haworth being those of fcstucac and 

 gamma; he would therefore place the genus as prior to Auto- 

 grapha ; I must confess that Haworth's "Lepidoptera Britan- 

 nica" is entirely unknown to me and I doubt if a copv exists in 

 this country; if so. I have been unable to find it. This being 

 the case, I cannot comment on Hampson's remarks but would 

 note that he certainly raises a delicate point which may call 

 for a special ruling by the committee on International Nomen- 

 clature. With regard to Hampson's non-acceptance of Och- 

 senheimer's generic names published in 18 16 as nomina mid a 

 I quote Article 7^ of Banks and Caudell's Entomological Code 

 which says that "A generic name becomes valid when publish- 

 ed in connection with or with reference to a valid { = described 

 or figured) specific name or to replace a valid generic name." 

 The first portion of this article clearly covers Ochsenheimer's 

 generic names which were published in connection with sev- 

 eral valid specific names ; I believe that the general entomolog- 

 ical usage in this country upholds me in regarding them as 

 valid and I must refuse to accept Hampson's reference of them 

 to Treitschke (1825). 



With regard to Hampson's remarks on the dates of Hiib- 

 ner's 'A'crzeichniss" I should like to point out that he has 

 overlooked several important points in this connection. In 

 the first place I would refer him to a pamphlet published in 

 1905 by Prof. C. H. Fernald. of Amherst. INIassachusetts. on 

 the dates of Hiibner's "Sammlung Eur. Schmett." ; in this 

 pa.mphlet are reprinted several of Hiibner's dated prospectuses, 



