34 [Pebniary, 



EEYISION OF THE NOMENCLATUEE OF MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 

 BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 



AND 



JOHN HARTLEY CURRANT, F.E.S., Memb. Soc. Ent. de France. 



BOEKHAUSENIA, Hb. 



= * (EGOPROMA, auct. {nee Ltr.). 



The generic name (Ecophora, Ltr., has for nearly half a century 

 been erroneously employed in the sense in which it is used in Stau- 

 dinger's Catalog. Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., Ill, 417 (1802), 

 himself cited Tinea sulpTiurella, F., as the type of his genus (Ecophora, 

 which type was also adopted by Curtis, Br. Ent., IX, expl., PI. 408 

 (1832), in redescribing the same genus under the same name. Meyricb, 

 HB. Br. Lep., 633 (1895), has therefore very properly used (Ecophora 

 for sulphurella, E., in accordance with Latreille' s original intention, and 

 ^Dasycerus, Hw. (= Dasycera, Steph., auct.), having been created for 

 this species and Oliviella, E., must sink as a synonym ; moreover, 

 Stephens in changing the name to Dasycera pointed out that Dasycerus 

 was pre-occupied in Coleoptera (Brongn., 1799). 



Other authors (e. g., Herrich-Schaffer and Snellen) have wrongly 

 adopted the generic name Lavipros, Tr., in the sense of (Ecophora, 

 auct., but this use is inadmissible, for Duponchel, Hist. Ifat. Lp , Er., 

 XI, 17—18, 257—8 (1838), cited wza>reZZa (Schiff.),Hb. (= Harpella 

 forjicella, Sc), as the type of Lampros. 



Meyrick, HB. Br. Lp., 633 — 4 (1895), employed Acompsia, Hb., in 

 lieu of (Ecophora, auct., but "Walsingham, Pr. Z. Soc. Lond., 1897, 82, 

 has pointed out that Duponchel, Hist. Nat. Lep., Er., XI, 19 (1838), 

 cited cinerella, L. {^ ardeliella, Hb., 437), as the type of Acompsia, 

 Hb., and that therefore Acompsia, Hb , = Brachycrossata, Hein., 

 = Becurvaria (Hw.), Meyr., HB. Br. Lp., 606—7 (1895). 



Since all previous writers have thus failed to find a name which 

 can properly be applied to the very natural and recognisable concep- 

 tion known as (Ecophora, auctorum {vide Stgr. Cat., p. 307), it becomes 

 necessary to search for a dormant one, that can be so applied and to 

 resuscitate it; Borkhausenia, Hb. Yerz. bek. Schm., 420 (1826), can 

 be employed in the sense required. The original types were : 1. minu- 

 tella, L., Hb., 141 (= (Ecophora, Stgr., 2281) ; 2. similella, Hb., 182 

 (= (Ecophora, Stgr., 2273) ; 3. atrella (Schiff.),Hb., 278 {?=atrella, 

 Hw. (Hw.), i. e., Lamprotes, Stgr., 2062). 



Stephens, 111. Br. Ent. Haust., lY, 354 (1834), 423 (1835), did not 

 affect this genus, for he referred both minutella, L., and atrella, Hb,, 

 to his genus Amaurosetia in both references, however, omitting to note 



