172 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



For the European bibliography Stum linger and other similar works 

 should be consulted. In America the species has been but rarely re- 

 ferred to. 



Genus NEPHELODES Gn. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., i, 120. 



N. minians Gn.* 



1852. Gii., Spec, Gen., Noct., i, 130, Neplielodes. 



1856. Wlk., C. B.Mus., Het., ix, 163, Nephelodes. 

 1878. French, in 7th Kept. Ins. Ills., 99,- 220, larva. 

 1818. French, Can. Ent., x, 61, larva. 



1880. Riley, Amer. Ent., in, 205, larva. 



1881. Riley, Amer. Nat., xv, 575, 577, larva. 



1883. Lint., 1st Kept. State Ent., N. Y., 99, ff. 24, 25, life history. 

 expansa Wlk. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xi, 399, Grapliiphora. 

 1885. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xxxv, 1957, pr. syn. 

 1868. G. and R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., n, 78, pr. syn. 



sobria Wlk. 

 1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xi, 744, Grapldphora. 



var. violans Gu. 

 1852. Gu., Spec. Gen., Noct., i, 130, Neplielodes. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., ix, 163, Nepltvlodes. 



1882. Grt., New List, 29, pr. var. 

 stildolens Wlk. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., x, 405, Graplnplwra. 



HABITAT. Canada; United States generally; Eastern States in Au- 

 gust and September; Colorado, August to October. 



The types of all the names are in the British Museum. G. expansa 

 Wlk., I did not find ; but as Walker has himself referred it as a synonym, 

 he may have removed the label or what is equally possible, I over- 

 looked the specimen, though I found all the others referable here. tf. 

 sobria is from Bogota, while sultlolenx is from u locality unknown." 



Genus TRICHOLITA Grt. 

 1875. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., n, 211, 215. 



T. signata Wlk.* 



1860. Wlk., Can. Nat. and Geol., v, 253, Neplielodes. 



1877. Grt., Can. Eut., ix, 28, Tricholita. 



semiaperta Morr. 



1874. Morr., Can. Ent., vi, 105, Hydro-da . 



1874. Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvn, 150, PengrapJia. 



1875. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., n, 211, 215, Tricholita. 

 1875. Grt., Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxvi, 341, Tricholita. 



1877. Grt., Can. Ent., ix, 28, pr. syu. 



HABITAT. Canada; New York and Illinois in July and August; 

 Massachusetts in August; Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central 

 States ; New Mexico. 



Mr. Morrison's type is in the Tepper collection. The Walker type is 

 in the collection of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and has been 



