126 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
species, speaking of egeria as occurring “ everywhere in Sweden ” and 
meone in south Kurope, but wrongly ascribing the authorship of the 
latter name to Ochsenheimer. Duponchel in his Catalogue, also in 
.1844, follows on the same lines. This nomenclature, aegeria for the 
northern form and meone for the southern form, was generally adopted 
until Staudinger discovered that entomologists were altogether wrong 
in their application of the names, and that it was the southern form 
that Linnaeus had named aegeria. In the second edition of his Catalog, 
issued at the end of January, 1871, Staudinger says of Linneus’s 
aegerta, “‘certissime forma australis lutea.” That being so the name 
_meone, itself wrongly applied, had to fall before aegeria, and thus left 
the northern form without aname. Staudinger therefore proposed the 
name egerides for it, and to prevent any mistake as to what he meant 
he gave in parentheses the brief but sufficient description, ‘‘ forma sep- 
tentrionalis pallidior.” 
A very distinct form of the insect, so distinct as to be able to lay 
doubtful claim to specific rank, was early known to fly in Madeira, and 
Fabricius was aware of this. There were two specimens in the posses- 
sion of the British entomologist, Banks, which are still preserved in 
the national collection at South Kensington. Fabricius evidently saw 
these, and in 1775 gave them the name of aiphia, describing them in 
Syst. E’nt., pp. 492-8, sp. 215, as being in “ Mus. Banks; Habitat in 
Madeira.” ‘There is also another well known form which inhabits the 
Canary Islands, and which is a connecting link between meone and 
xiphia. Upon this Staudinger has bestowed the name of wiphioides. 
The species and its main varieties may therefore be tabulated 
thus :— 
Aiceria, L.—Deep brown with fulvous markings. Southern and 
south-western Hurope, and northern Africa. 
Var. eceRipEs, Ster.—Dark fuscous with pale yellow markings. 
Northern, central and eastern Europe, including Britain. 
Ab. intermepia, Tutt.—A name applied to forms connecting aeyeria 
with egerides. 
Var. mone, Cr.—Reddish brown with reddish fulvous markings. 
Algeria, Morocco, Gibraltar. 
Var. xrpa1a, Fab.—Large dark form shaded with golden red. Madeira. 
Var. x1pHioipEs, Ster.—Dark brown, more and smaller red-brown 
spots, underside with white streak from costa. Canary 
Islands. 
On some Psychides. 
By the Rev. C. R. N. BURROWS, F.E.S. 
In the years 1886-7-8, as is recorded in Tutt’s ‘ British Lepidop- 
tera,” vol. ii., pp. 163-170—being resident at Brentwood, my friend, 
the Rev. G. H. Raynor and I, found Solenobia ineconspicuella in 
considerable quantity upon some old oak palings in the neighbourhood. 
Several times since I left those parts I have visited these palings, 
generally a little late in the season, but always with a hope that I 
might find, at least, the old empty cases to assure me of the continued 
occurrence of this interesting, though small and ineonspicuous species. 
Up to this year I have failed to find even this evidence. Our studies 
