10 THE entomologist's eecord. 



My next note is in the nature of a grumble. Why has Mr. Porritt, 

 in editing Buckler's Larvae, vol. vii., misapplied one of the very few 

 names which I thought were really safe and reliable — the laricaria of 

 Doubleday ? He has carefully kept the accounts of the two species 

 separate, but has used the name laricariaiov the single-brooded species 

 and crepuficularia for the double-brooded (^.r., pp. 37 and 35). I am afraid 

 this cannot but increase the confusion which already exists, especially 

 as there is little in the way of citation to guide the uninitiated as 

 to the application. 



Concerning the " \sa'. gen. ii.," I find a less objectionable name 

 than consonaria, Stph. (because not based on a misconception") has 

 fortunately the priority. Scharfenberg, in Bechstcin und Scharfenherrf s 

 Natim/esciiicJite dcr Schiidliche Forstinsekten (1805) — a work which has 

 not yet been analysed as carefully as it will require to be — describes 

 the second brood as a good species, under the name of haeticaria. 



Concerning the dark aberrations of the two species, or of one at 

 least of them, some discussion has recently taken place in Societas 

 Entoviolnt/ica, but will not disturb the synonymy. In vol. viii., p. 18 

 (May, 1893) Dr. Klemensiewicz describes " Boarmia crepuscnlaria, Hb. 

 ab. achillci n. ab.," from Italy, as an almost unicolorous dark form with 

 sharply- defined whitish subterminal line. Whether this really belongs 

 to bistortata or crepusailaria is at present uncertain, but as both had 

 been previously named it matters little ; as, however, he cites it to 

 orpuscularia, Hb., and gives no definite indication from which one can 

 deduce that this is incorrect, the synonym should be written to ab. 

 delaniercufiis. Garbowski {I.e., p. 35), points out that the form has 

 already been named defcsmria by Freyer (cfr. Entonr. BecoirJ, viii., 

 p. 80) ; and he had already used this last as a varietal name in his 

 Materialen z)i einer Lepidopteren-faiina (ializiens, where, however, I take 

 it that he is probably referring to dark bistortata. 



I have not yet been able to investigate the Asiatic and American 

 forms and species in this group. Biundnlariaxox. latamcntaria, Graes. 

 [Bcrl. Knt. Zeit., 1888, p. 401), is a July- August form, and either a 

 second brood of one of our British species or of a close ally. Var. 

 ? inccrtaria, Stgr. {Iris, x., p. 59) is a large form taken two months 

 earlier than lt(tawentaria,Sit the same place (Vladivostok, in Amurland), 

 and probably its first brood. Staudinger indicates both as having the 

 whitish ground colour of ^' hixndularia'' {i.e., crepuscnlaria, Hb.), and 

 they must be provisionally cited* to that species with a ? ; it is hardly 

 conceivable that bistortata so far south would yield its two broods so 

 late as the end of May and July- August respectively. 



The following synonymical summary of these notes will facilitate 

 reference ; it will be noticed that the doubts which have arisen as to 

 the identity of ab. defessaria, Frr., have led me to cite it with query to 

 both species : 



No. 1. Bistortata, Gceze (nsi) = cdhi(la-hitiiidulata, T^etz. {n8^) = hiinidulata, 

 Vill. (nSd) = biundularici, Bkh. (1794), I^s]). pro parte (cir. n97)=crcpus- 

 cuUiria, Dup. (1829) nee Hb. 



Var. gen. 1. [Ahietaria,Ii\Y.(lS09)nec. lilh. = ']. Laricaria,'Dh\d.{lS'±l)=crepus- 

 cularia var. a, Gn. (1857). [Abietaria, Hw., is a homonym]. 



* Probaljly the strictest workers at synonymy would not even allow coiixonitria, 

 Stph., validity as a varietal name, seeing it is a homonym and does " not contain 

 the type of the conception "—" consojfaria, Hb. al. erat sp.," as Staudinger'a . 

 Cataloq would say. 



