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Show 82 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jail. 19, 64. ANACAMPSIS DESECTELLA, Z. Gelechia (Tachyptilia) desectella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 362-3, PL V. 122 (1877)1. Tachyptilia desectella, Wlsm. Pr. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523, 546 (1892)2. Hab. West Indies-CUBA1-2. 18. ACOMPSIA, Hb. Type, (Tinea) clnerella, CI. (Dp.). ACOMPSIA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 409 (1826); Stph. 111. Br. Ent., Haust. IV. 222-3 (1834); Dp. Hist. Nat. Lp. Fr. XI. 19 (1838) [nee Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 633-4 (1895)]. = BRACHYCROSSATA, Hein. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 323-4 (1870); Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 300 (1871). = EECURVARIA (HW.), Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 606-7 (1895). Westwood [Syn. Gn. Br. Ins. 110 (1840)], writing under the heading "Acampsla," cites tlnctella, Hb. (214), as the type. Staudinger and Wocke refer Hiibner's figure of clnerella (173 = t 137 Stgr.) to Clerck's species of this name; but it certainly looks more like an (Ecophora, and Westwood may have been justified in considering it to be the same species as tlnctella, Hb. (214), otherwise tlnctella could not be a possible type of Acompsia, not being cited by Hiibner. In either case Westwood's specification is inadmissible, being subsequent to Duponchel's citation of clnerella, CI. (= arcleliella, Hb. 437), as the type of Hiibner's genus Acompsia. Haworth's genus Becurvaria was not published until 1828, and Acompsia, Hb. (1826), is therefore entitled to precedence. The fourth part of Haworth's Lp. Br., pp. 513-609, is usually considered to have been published in 1829, but the completed work is reviewed, Mag. N. H. I. 348-9 (September 1828). Brachycrossata, Hein., must of course sink as a synonym whichever name is used for this genus ; and there appears to be no justification for Meyrick's use of Acompsia for the (Eeophora of Staudinger and Wocke's Catalog (HB. Br. Lp. 633-4), nor for the employment of Becurvaria, Hw. (in lieu of Acompsia, Hb.), for Brachycrossata, Hein. 65. ACOMPSIA ANGULIFERA, sp. n. Antennce greyish cinereous. Palpi smooth, slender, recurved; hoary grey, with a minute dark spot above near the apex. Head and thorax hoary greyish. Fore wings hoary greyish, with slight greyish-fuscous speckled shading; at the base of the costa is a small elongate blackish spot; on the fold at one-fourth from the base is a blackish transverse spot, followed by a smaller length-spot in the fold ; at the middle of the costa is an outwardly oblique greyish fuscous shade, mixed with some chestnut scales, terminating in a slender curved line on the outer end of the cell; before the apex is a slender hoary whitish transverse fascia, slightly angulated outwards on the middle and preceded by a greyish-fuscous shade |