g [June, 



Brit , refers to Hiibner's fig. 70 of Tortrix strobilana as his fraternana, 

 but I must confess that to me the figure is unrecognisable. The 

 reference, however, probably misled Stephens, for he, 111., iv, p. 98, 

 quotes Haworth's Latin diagnosis of fraternana, and then proceeds to 

 give another of his own in English, which last applies certainly to 

 splendidulana, Gn., but which Haworth himself called strobilana. It 

 will be noticed that Haworth compares his fraternana with the pre- 

 ceding species, his subsequana, = abiegana, Dup., and there is certainly 

 more resemblance between these insects than between splendidulana 

 and subsequana. He also says, "Habitat cum prcecedentibus" and gives 

 " April " with a query. Now, both subsequana and splendidulana occur 

 together in May, which is, I believe, also the proper month for proxi- 

 rnana, H.-S. At all events, there can be no doubt that Haworth's 

 name must have the priority, and the synonymy will, therefore, be : — 



fraternana, Haw., Lep. Brit., p. 449, No. 174. 



proximana, H.-S., fig. 127, iv, p. 219 ; Hein., p. 165. 

 distinctana, Wilk., p. Ill ; Stn., 2, 216. 



The next discovery is still more interesting. An example of 

 Teleia humeralis, Z., beneath which stands the larger label, "lucullella " 

 (sic), bears Haworth's own label, with the name decorella on it. For 

 some time I was puzzled, as this name does not occur in Haworth's 

 Lepidoptera Britannica, but it is quoted as T. decorella, Haw., in the 

 111., iv, p. 213, by Stephens, who includes it in his genus Anacampsis. 

 I have since found it along with notices of a few other, then new, 

 species, in the Transactions of the old Ent. Soc. of London, for the year 

 1812, pp. 332 — 340, the paper containing the account having been 

 read by Haworth on the 2nd of June of that same year. 



In Hagen's " Bibliotheca Entomologica," p. 350, it appears that 

 the 4th and last part of Haworth's work was printed in 1812, but not 

 published before 1828 or 1829 ; the MSS. having, as Haworth himself 

 informs us at p. 333 of the Transactions above noticed, passed into 

 the hands of a Mr. "W. Savage, with whom the publication rested. 

 Hence, we have the curious anomaly of the names of species contained 

 in what might be considered as an Appendix* to a work, preceding by 

 16 years those contained in the work itself. (The fact was recognised 

 by Wocke in his catalogue : as he makes tricolorella, Haw., which 

 appears in the paper in the Transactions, precede contigua, Haw., 

 which comes in the body of the work.) 



* Haworth, in 1812, contemplated writing an Appendix to his Lepidoptera Britannica but 

 B r did so.— H. T. 8. 



never did so 



