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Volume 34, Number 3
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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 34(3), 1980, 325
A CORRECTION OF THE NAME FOR THE TYPE-SPECIES OF RHOPOBOTA LEDERER (TORTRICIDAE: EUCOSMINI)
The genus Rhopobota Lederer, 1859, was described to include Tortrix naevana Hiibner [1814-1817], a species known in North America as the black-headed fireworm. Subsequently, Tortrix unipunctana Haworth, 1811, was recognized as a senior synonym of Tortrix naevana (Bradley et al., 1972, In Kloet & Hincks, A checklist of British insects, second ed., part 2, Lepidoptera. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond.; Karlsholt & Schmidt Nielsen, 1976, Systematisk fortegnelse over Danmarks sommerfugle. Scand. Science Pr., Klampenborg, Denmark). In a recent paper on nomenclatorial changes in Eucos-mini (Brown, 1979, J. Lepid. Soc. 33: 21-28), I also listed Tortrix unipunctana Haworth as the senior name for the type-species of Rhopobota. I have been recently informed by Dr. John Bradley, of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, that Tortrix unipunctana Haworth is a primary homonym of Tortrix unipunctana Donovan, 1805 (Epitome of Natural History of Insects of New Holland, PI. 40). This homonomy has been obscured by the misspelling of unipunctana Donovan as unipunctata in the Index Animalium (Sherborn, 1931, British Museum (Natural History), London). As unipunctana Haworth is the junior homonym, the next available name for the type-species of Rhopobota is Tortrix naevana Hiibner, the name historically used in North America.
Richard L. Brown, Department of Entomology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762.
OBITUARY
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 34(3), 1980, 325
BRISBANE CHARLES SOMERVILLE WARREN (1887-1979)
B.C.S. Warren of Folkestone, England, died on 22 January 1979. His most notable contribution (among many) was his Monograph of the genus Erebia, published by the British Museum (N.H.) in 1936. He spent four years carrying out the needed research, and in writing this definitive volume. In 1944, he started a short series of papers devoted to the classification of the Argynnidi. For me, his most interesting studies relate to the androconial scales of pierids. These brought about the revision of several perplexingly similar species.
A brief note concerning his early introduction to entomology and a bibliography of his 112 papers was published by Warren in Nota Lepid. 1(2): 77-81, 31 March 1978. An obituary and photograph of him appeared in the Entomologist's Record, 1979 in the April issue, pp. 111-112.
F. Martin Brown, 6715 South Marksheffel Road, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80911.