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J. tumida, Salmon, and J. berculena
Serrander in that year Mr Davidson
divided it into two smaller genera,
conforming the former Orysta to that
sectum for which if you cannot affix either
with a tumida or herculana for the
type and adjusting Spinifera, the type,
for the other type J. concentrica. It
was afterwards found that Orysta
as thus rededined includes two genera,
and in consequence it has been
again divided by separating all those
typified or J. berculana under the
genus of Orysta, a genus well and but
not clearly defined morphologically.
For which I believe to be the true one
Those who contend are
opposed to this arrangement contend
that, as all the species which Orysta
placed in the same at the time he first
described it belong to the group typified
by J. concentrica the name Orysta