REVISIONAL NOTES (LEPIDOPTERA). 3) 
collection, Messrs. Newman and Janson again buying freely. Taken 
as a whole the condition of the smaller insects was not so good as 
those in the first sale, in fact quite a number were more or less 
defective. The cataloguing of the collection by Mr. Janson was well 
and painstakingly done and favourably affected the financial result of 
the sale. 
Thus has been dispersed a fine collection accumulated by one of the 
old time collectors over which a vast amount of time and patience 
must have been expended, adding much to our knowledgs of the 
particular species and their distribution: every insect appeared to be 
labelled. The Lycenidae were mostly obtained from Dover and 
Folkestone, and a collector named Bailey seems to have possessed a 
keen eye for aberrational forms. The writer has seen only two private 
collections that excel the one sold, viz., those belonging to Mr. P. M. 
Bright and Mr. A. B. Farn.—S. G. C.-R. 
Revisional Notes (Lepidoptera). 
_By Jno. HARTLEY DURRANT, F.E.S. ns 
(Published by permission cf the Trustees of the British Museum). 
AG 
Phalaena Tortrix fasciana, L. 
In 1864, Werneburg (Btr. Schm. 1. 224-5, 263-4, no. 82) wrote a 
critical note on Tortrix. fasciana, L., and arriving at the conclusion that 
the insect described by Linné was the well-known Erastria which had 
also been described as fuscula, Schiff., Tr., and pygarga, Hin., he sank 
these later names as synonyms, writing: “ Ich glaube nicht zu fehlen. 
wenn ich fasciana, L. fiir fuscula, Tr. erklare.” Staudinger and 
Wocke, who in the first edition of their Vatalog (1861) called the species 
Erastria pygarga, Hin. (=fuscula, Schiff.), adopted Werneburg’s views 
in their second edition (1871) and “ fasciana’”’ came definitely into use 
for this Hrastria. In Staudinger and Rebel’s Cataloy (1901), for some 
reason unknown, pygarga is omitted from the synonymy of “ fasciana, 
L.,” and Hampson, who also adopts “ fasciana, L.,’ refers 1t to 
Lithacodia, Hb., likewise omitting pygarya from the synonymy. 
Linne’s description is as follows ;— 
Phalaena Tortrix fasciana, L. Fn. Suec. (ed. 2) 842 sp. 1304 (1761). 
“Ph. Tortrix fasciana alis fusco cinerascentibus : fascia alba. 
Habitat in Pomariis. 
Deser. Media. Alae siuperiores obscure cinerascentes margine 
exteriore albo nigroque maculato; fascia lata, albida recurvata. 
Inferiores alae nigricantes : margine ciliari albido.” 
If the above description be compared with specimens of Hrastria 
fuscula (2264) and 22387 Pamimene juliana, Crt., it will be at onee 
observed that the “fascia lata, albida recurvata”’ is present in juliana, 
while no such marking is to be found in fuscula, which is white only 
around the tornus. Also FW. costa “albo nigroque maculato”’ and 
HW. ‘‘nigricantes: margine ciliari albido”’ refer obviously to juliana 
and not to fuscula. Should any doubt remain, this will at once 
vanish after an examination of Linné’s type at Burlington House, 
which is undoubtedly juliana. We must therefore adopt the following 
corrected synonymy :— 
