10 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
My next note is in the nature of a grumble. Why has Mr. Porritt, 
in editing Buckler’s Larvae, vol. vil., misapplied one of the very few 
names which I thought were really safe and reliable—the laricaria of 
Doubleday? He has carefully kept the accounts of the two species 
separate, but has used the name laricaria for the single-brooded species 
and crepuscularia for the double-brooded (/.c., pp. 87 and 35). Lam afraid 
this cannot but increase the confusion which already exists, especially 
as there is little in the way of citation to guide the uninitiated as 
to the application. 
Concerning the “ var. gen. ii.,’’ I find a less objectionable name 
than consonaria, Stph. (because not based on a misconception) has 
fortunately the priority. Scharfenberg, in Bechstein und Scharfenbery’s 
Naturgeschichte der Schiidliche Forstinsekten (1805)—a work which has 
not yet been analysed as carefully as it will require to be—describes 
the second brood as a good species, under the name of bacticaria. 
Concerning the dark aberrations of the two species, or of one at 
least of them, some discussion has recently taken place in Societas 
Fntomologica, but will not disturb the synonymy. In vol. viil., p. 18 
(May, 1893) Dr. Klemensiewicz describes ‘‘ Boarmia crepuscularia, Hb. 
ab. schillet n. ab.,’’ from Italy,as an almost unicolorous dark form with 
sharply-defined whitish subterminal line. Whether this really belongs 
to bistortata or crepuscularia is at present uncertain, but as both had 
been previously named it matters little; as, however, he cites it to 
crepuscularia, Hb., and gives no definite indication from which one can 
deduce that this is incorrect, the synonym should be written to ab. 
delamerensis. Garbowski (l.c., p. 85), points out that the form has 
already been named defessaria by Freyer (cfr. Hntom. Record, viii., 
p. 80) ; and he had already used this last as a varietal name in his 
Materialen zu einer Lepidopteren-fauna Galiziens, where, however, I take 
it that he is probably referring to dark bistortata. 
I have not yet been able to investigate the Asiatic and American 
forms and species in this group. Biundularia var. lutamentaria, Graes. 
(Berl. I'nt. Zeit., 1888, p. 401), is a July-August form, and either a 
second brood of one of our British species or of a close ally. Var. 
? incertaria, Stgr. (Iris, x., p. 59) 1s a large form taken two months 
earlier than lutamentaria,at the same place (Vladivostok, in Amurland), 
and probably its first brood. Staudinger indicates both as haying the 
whitish ground colour of ‘ biwulularia” (i.e., crepuscularia, Hb.), and 
they must be provisionally cited to that species with a ?; it is hardly 
conceivable that bistortata so far south would yield its two broods so 
late as the end of May and July-August respectively. 
The following synonymical summary of these notes will facilitate 
reference; it will be noticed that the doubts which have arisen as to 
the identity of ab. defessaria, Frv., have led me to cite it with query to 
both species : 
No. 1. Bisrorrata, Goeze (1781) = albida-biundulata, Retz. (1783) = biundulata, 
Vill. (1789) =biundularia, Bkh. (1794), Esp. pro parte (cir. 1797) =crepus- 
cularia, Dup. (1829) nee Hb. 
Var. gen. 1. [Abietaria, Hw. (1809) nec. Hb. =]. Laricaria, Dbld.(1847) = crepus- 
cularia var. A, Gn. (1857). [Abietaria, Hw., is a homonym]. 
* Probably the strictest workers at synonymy would not even allow consonaria, 
Stph., validity as a variclal name, seeing it is a homonym and does “ not contain 
“the type of the conception ”’—“ consonaria, Hb. al. erat sp.,” as Staudinger’s 
Catalog would say. 
