characterized species of British Moths. 1 1 3 



met with this insect but once, and then in abundance on the 

 paling round Dover Castle in July 1829. I suspect it is only a 

 strong variety of C. octomaculana, as some of my specimens ap- 

 proach that insect. 



14. 10. C. rectifasciana, Haw. I am not satisfied that this 

 is the insect figured by Hubner (pi. 38. f. 238) under the name 

 of T. hybridana : it is larger and darker, and the markings have 

 a different character ; indeed it reminds me more of a variety of 

 T. comitana. 



Mr. Doubleday having applied my generic name to that por- 

 tion of the group which is not typical, it becomes necessary to 

 repeat, that the type of Cnephasia is a species abundant on elm- 

 trees, the T. logiana of Haworth, which in 1826, when I esta- 

 blished its characters, was believed to be synonymous with the 

 Linnsean species, as well as with the T. pascuana of Hubner, 

 pi. 16. f. 99. The name Sciaphila, which Mr. Doubleday has 

 substituted for Cnephasia, was not published by Treitschke until 

 1829, and could not therefore be applied to my group, even had 

 it not been preoccupied by Schonherr for a genus of Curculionidse 

 four years before Treitschke adopted it. It may be as well to 

 correct the spelling of Hubner' s name, which in his letterpress 

 is pascuana, but by an error of the engraver the s has been con- 

 verted into an i, making the unmeaning word pasiuana, and pas- 

 sivana of Doubleday's list. 



15. Genus 960, 1. Orthotcenia (Euchromia, Step.) formosana, 

 Curt. B. E. fol. 364. This was described by me in 1831, not as 

 the T. formosana of Hubner as indicated by Mr. Doubleday, a 

 species I am unacquainted with, as well as his T. flammeana, 

 neither of which can I find in the Index to Hiibner's works nor 

 in Treitschke. 



16. 13. O. Arbutana, Hub. pi. 31. f. 195. Mr. Dale feels 

 confident this is the T. Arbutella of the Linnsean cabinet. 



17. 7. O. alternana, Curt. ib. : Daleana, Doub., was also de- 

 scribed in 'Brit. Ent/ in 1831, where I adopted the names in 

 the 1st ed. of my ' Guide/ and not of the * Wiener Verzeichniss/ 

 where I am unable to find T. alternana ; and even if it be there, 

 I must protest against the superseding of established specific 

 names, unless the name has been employed in the same group 

 previously. If such be the case in the present instance, I fully 

 approve of the name of my friend, which Mr. Doubleday pro- 

 poses. 



18. 8. O. gramineana, Curt, ib., also described on the above 

 page of ' Brit. Ent.' At that time I stated it was " most allied 



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