Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh Bland, Keith P. Zootaxa 2010 2394 1 22 PIPERATA Kaye, 1925 PIPERATA Kaye 1925 [151,574,1071,1097] Insecta Noctuidae Metalectra Animalia Lepidoptera 14 15 Arthropoda genus    Holotype, male, pinned:  Specimen data: “Palmiste | 18/5/21” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “ Metalectrasp. [Handwritten (by Tams)] | W.H.T.Tams det.” [Printed]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950.16” [Printed] with label with “  TYPE” [Handwritten in red ink], glued to it. “ Metalectra piperata Kaye” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label]. Label by M.J.W.Cock. 1977, justifying holotypestatus of species.   Remarks: This specimen collected at Palmiste, Trinidadon 18th May 1921by Sir N. Lamont is unambiguously the holotype. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. XLV: fig. 4 ( Kaye 1925, Kaye & Lamont 1927). Poole (1989)erroneously suggests that the [holo] typeis in the BM(NH).