90 



the pupa, with only the first two abdominal segments fixed, 

 supports this position ; but unfortunately the ovipositor is not 

 a piercing one, nor is there a spiculate wing membrane. 

 There are even some grounds for believing that it may 

 belong to the Cochlidid-Zygsnid series rather than to the 

 Tineid one. A detailed study of the larvae might make this 

 point clearer. So far as I have observed it, it does not 

 support this view. 



" Herrch Shaeffer made the name Er.xlcheniella ; Fabricius 

 called it Erxlebella, and Erxlchella it therefore is. You may 

 say, if you like, it ouglit to have been Erxlebeniella, and you 

 may call Fabricius a grammatical idiot, and express your 

 irritation at him by any language you choose to think suffi- 

 ciently proper (or improper) for the purpose ; but you cannot 

 alter the fact that he called it Erxlebella, and Erxlebella it is,- — 

 named after Erxleben, I suppose. Well, was Erxleben a 

 German, who went to Rome and became latinised as 

 Erxlebenius, or was he a Roman called Erxlebus, who 

 settled amongst the Germanic barbarians and got called 

 Erxleben ? For grammatical purposes we may assume 

 either ; for systematic purposes we are entitled to know or 

 imagine nothing, except that Fabricius called it Erxlebella, a 

 word that may or may not have any other meaning than the 

 moth before us." 



Mr. South exhibited a specimen of Acidalia margini- 

 punctata from the hills around Clevedon. It was a form new 

 to him, having the central line distinctly edged with dark 

 suffusion, forming an irregular band. He also exhibited a 

 number of species of British and Eastern Asian Lepidoptera, 

 and read some notes thereon. He stated that, excluding 

 Tineidae and Tortricidse, over 300 species of Lepidoptera 

 occurring in Britain were found also in Eastern Asia. The 

 moths comprised 56 Sphinges and Bombyces (old style), 

 106 Noctuidae, 76 Geometridae, and 32 Pyralidas. 



APRIL 24th, 1902. 



Mr. F. NoAD Clark, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. R. L. Boxer, of Lee, was elected a member. 



Mr. Harrison exhibited a long-bred series of Tccniocanipa 

 opinia from ova collected at Wallasey, Cheshire. A very 

 considerable range of variation was shown, more than half 

 the specimens being of an extreme dark coloration. The 

 type form, glossy slaty grey with broad central band, was 



