THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 76.] APRIL, MDCCGLXX. [Price 6d. 



Critical Notes on certain British Leucanidce, hy Dr. 

 O. Staudinger. Translated from the ' Stettiner 

 Zeitung' for 1869, by Albert Muller, Esq. 



1. Nonagria neurica of Hiibner, N. dissoluta of Treitscbke, 

 Arundineta of Schmidt. — In Ochsenheimer's collection there 

 is a true Neurica (Hiibner, fig 381), as such, with a label in 

 his own handwriting. Below it there is a typical Arun- 

 dineta of Schmidt, with a label whereon is written, in 

 Ochsenheimer's handwriting, "An eadem cum praecedente ? 

 sub nomine Noctua dissoluta." In Treitschke's collection 

 there are five specimens, under the label " Neurica," of 

 which the first is Neurica of Hiibner, 381 ; the second, third 

 and fourth are Arundineta of Schmidt, and the fifth is the 

 dark form of Neurica* (Hiibner, fig. 650 — 661), subsequently 

 Hessii of Boisduval, and from this, as well as from what 

 Treitscbke says about Neurica (vol. v. 2, p. 319), it is 

 strikingly shown that Treitscbke threw together the three 

 forms, although Ochsenheimer had previously rightly con- 

 jectured the latter to be another species, Arundineta (so well 

 distinguished by my friend Schmidt, of Wismar, in the Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. 1858, p. 369, &c.) The name Dissoluta must 

 therefore only be retained for the dark form of Arundineta 

 (for that only it certainly is), for Hiibner's 659 — 661, and for 

 Hessii, Boisd., as Treitscbke, when mentioning this name, 

 means only the dark form. But to act with strict propriety 

 the name Dissoluta of Treitscbke must be retained as the 

 typical name, for the sake of priority ; the name Arundineta 

 of Schmidt must be added to it as a variety, although this 



* Mr. Doubleday suggests that this name should be printed " Arundineti," 

 and that the name " Neurica" has been written by Dr. Staudinger in 

 mistake. In his 'Catalogue' Dissoluta stands as a variety of Arundineti : 

 there is probably a dark form of the true Arundineti, but Mr. Doubleday 

 does not know that any one has found it. 



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