OQQ [October, 



Ning-po is within the 30th parallel, near the port of Shang-hai, 

 and as Mr. Szigetvary says that no one in China appears to be familiar 

 with the animal, there is grave reason to suppose that it may have 

 been imported to, and may spread in Asia as it has in Africa, and 

 prove as troublesome a scourge among a people ignorant of its habits, 

 and unused to and unable to deal with its attacks. 



An interesting point is the situation of the present examples in 

 the tough skin of the pinna, which must have dilated with remarkable 

 quickness to accommodate the rapidly growing parasite. 



48, Wimpole Street, London, W. : 

 August, 1894. 



PEE-OCCUPIED aENEEIC NAMES IN LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY E. METEICK, B.A., F.Z.S. 



It appears from Lord Walsingham's paper on species previously 

 referred to Heydenia {ante, p. 199), that he has overlooked the fact 

 that the name Heydenia is pre-occupied in the Hymenoptera, and, 

 therefore, not applicable. Hence it is possible that devoteUa, Heyd., 

 may require a new generic name ; but as I have never examined it, I 

 abstain from suggesting one. 



I have, however, noted several other generic names in use for 

 good genera of Lepidoptera, but pre-occupied in other groups. I 

 propose accordingly, for Microdonta, Dup. (pre-occupied in Coleopterd), 

 to substitute Hieeophanta (type licoloria, Schiff.) ; for Gleodora, 

 Curt, (pre-occupied in Mollusca), to substitute Paltodoea (type 

 cytisella, Curt.) ; for Poscilia, Hein. (pre-occupied in Pisces), to sub- 

 stitute Stenolechia (type nivea, Hw.). I may also call attention to 

 the fact that Chauliodus, Tr., is thrice pre-occupied in Pisces, Neurop- 

 tera* and Aves, but in this instance the name Epermenia, Hb., already 

 exists, and should be applied. 



E-eturning to Lord Walsingham's paper above-mentioned, I 

 observe that in his genus Gataplectica veins 6 and 7 of the hind-wings 

 are described and figured as stalked ; in my specimens of profugella, 

 auromaculata, and Julviyuttella, they are clearly separate. The point 

 may, however, here well be variable, as in the c\osc\y allied PJpermenia. 



Eamsbury, Hungerford : 



September 1st, 1894. 



* This name was used by Billberg in his " Enumeratio," in 1820, and is a corrected form 

 of the equivalent Chauliodes, Latreille, 1798. --R. McLachlan. 



