of the Genus Hemerohius of Linnctus, Sfc, 59 



and other principal Societies with vvliich the Entomological Society 

 of London is in correspondence, in order that they may have an 

 opportunity of giving their opinions ; and thus we might obtain 

 what is most essential, — a nomenclature universally adopted. 



I have the pleasure of announcing, that during a recent visit to 

 my friend Mr. Dale we took the males of Acentropus Garnonsii 

 at Glanville's Wooton in some abundance. I found only one 

 female, which was dead, and had rudimentary wings only ; but 

 since I left that neighbourhood, Mr. Dale has found other females, 

 and it is my intention shortly to present a Paper to the Society 

 regarding the economy of this remarkable and anomalous insect. 



Orthot.^nia Buoliana, Wien. Verz. 



Mr. May, of the Clifton Nursery, having given me a packet of 

 the shoots of pine-trees infested with the larvse of this Tortrix, I 

 have bred a great number of both sexes, and I have considerable 

 doubts whether the O. Buoliana and 0. Pinicolana be any more 

 than local varieties. The last I bred from fir-trees in the Re- 

 gent's Park, where it used to be not uncommon on the paling. 



With regard to the generic name OrtJiotcenla, I do not hesitate 

 to adopt it for this group, as in July, 1831, I published the genus,* 

 giving T. Tunonella, Linn.f as the type, from which species my 

 characters and dissections were drawn ; and in 1834 Mr. Stephens 

 adopted this name for the same group in his "Illustrations. "J It 

 was not until 1845 that M. Guenee gave it the name of Relinia, 

 and transferred that of Ortholccnia to three species which never 

 entered into my genus. Why Mr. Stephens, in his Museum List, 

 should have followed M. Guenee, and abandoned the genus as 

 given by him in the " Illustrations," does not appear. 



I must not neglect to add, that before I adopted the name of 

 Turionella for the insect I figured, I consulted the Linnean Cabinet, 

 where I found the shoot of a fir-tree from which the moth had 

 hatched, fixed by an old pin to the Linnean autograph, and two 

 unset specimens of my insect by the side, labelled " Anglia, Hud- 

 son." It is therefore evident that the Orthotcema figured in the 

 " British Entomology" was formerly, indeed in the time of Linnaeus, 

 accepted as the true T. Turionella, 



* Brit. Ent. fol. and pi. 364. 



t It is now said that my insect is not the Linnean species, and Mr. Doubleday 

 has named it O. Pinicolana. At all events it belongs to the same genus, and that 

 is sufficient to establish my generic name. 



t Vol. iv, p. 178. 



