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Lord Walsingliam on 
Mr. SmifcTi in tlie same locality having been received 
throngli the kindness of the Honble. Walter Rothschild. 
I regret that it is impossible to add illustrations to the 
plate, which leaves several types to be figured at some 
future time. A few corrections have been made in the 
nomenclature of the genera, as in the case of Hysterosia 
for Idiograjphisy Zeiraphera for Steganoptycha, and Eucelis 
for Grapholitha, the reasons for which will be found fully 
set forth where these names occur. I am painfully aware 
that these few corrections touch the fringe only of a 
subject uncongenial to my taste, but if any consistent 
method is to be introduced into the system of nomen- 
clature finally adopted for general use by students of 
this and allied groups of Lepidoptera, it is a subject that 
must be boldly faced and placed once for all upon a 
sound basis. I have here endeavoured merely to indicate 
the lines upon which such an attempt can safely be 
made. 
TORTKICID^. 
TOBTEIGIN^. 
Platynota, Clem. 
Platynota nigrocervina, sp. n. 
AntenncB, $ , cinereous. Palpi cinereous, speckled with fuscous. 
Head and Thorax cinereous, with some fuscous shading. Fore- 
vnngSj ^ , f awn-ochreous, with a broad broken band of blue-black 
scales (some in raised tufts) extending from before the middle of 
the costal to beyond the middle of the dorsal margin ; a similar 
band, but somewhat more mixed with the fawn ground-colour, 
begins beyond the costal margin and joins the first band about the 
lower angle of the cell ; one or two transverse fawn-coloured 
streaks cross the apical portion of the wing to the anal angle, and 
above it and between these, as well as among the broken spaces in 
the dark bands, some lines of shining steel scales illuminate the 
paler ground-colour ; cilia pale fawn, a slender reduplicated darker 
line along their base. Exjj. al., ^ 20 mm. Hindwings reddish 
fawn ; cilia grey, with a darker dividing shade near their base. 
Abdomen fawn ochreons. Legs fawn whitish. 
$ In the larger female the black bands are reduced to incon- 
