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Some four or five years ago I examined, at Dr. Biley's request, a very 

 large series of Anomids, largely South American, in comparison with 

 a number of type specimens from the Paris collections and with the 

 descriptions of all the species. The material was larger than any I have 

 seen elsewhere or since, and after the most careful comparisons I then 

 concluded that Hiibner could have had no other than Say's xylina 

 before him as original to his figure. There are certain specific char- 

 acters that are seen in xylina and in no other species, and these char- 

 acters are given by Hiibner. The figure is bad and the color is bad; 

 but neither are worse than a hundred others which are accepted un- 

 questioned, and the specific features given are those of xylina and of no 

 other species. The very great majority of early figures are no more 

 accurate than is Hiibner's argillacea, but where there are not closely 

 related species the matter is immaterial. In this instance I believe Mr. 

 Grote most clearly in the right. 



Genus PTERJETHOLIX Grt. 

 1873. Grt., Trans. Ain. Ent. Soc. ; iv, 298. 



P. bullula Grt.* 



1873. Grt., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., iv, 299, Ptercelholix. 

 1883. Grt./Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., xxi, 163, Ptercctlinlir. 



HABITAT. Alabama and Southern States ; Texas in October to De- 

 cember. 



The specimen in the British Museum does not seem to be the type; 

 but is from the Grote collection and is the same as the specimens so 

 named in the National Museum. Mr. Butler says, Entomologi st x xv, 11. 

 that this is the same genus as Berresa Wlk., Het. xvi, 214. I did not 

 see the specimens and am not ready to accept the reference. 



Genus AMYNA Gn. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., i, 406. 



A. orbica Morr. * 



1874. Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvn, 216, Segetia. 

 tecta Grt. 



1876. Grt., Can. Ent,, vm, 190, diyloryza. 

 1878. Grt., Can. Ent., x, 233, Chylorysa. 

 1891. Smith, List Lepidoptera, 51, pr. syn. 



HABITAT. Texas; Kansas in October. 



Somewhere I have seen Mr. Morrison's type, which is the same species 

 as Mr. Grote's type of tecta in the British Museum. It is quite likely 

 that Mr. Morrison's name must eventually sink in favor of one of the 

 Guenee or Walker names In the British and other European muse- 

 ums are a number of Central and South American species, very closely 

 allied, which much resemble our own insect. In fact there were so 

 many names and so little difference in the specimens that 1 felt unwill- 

 ing to identify the Texan form with any of them. Ilattia is another 

 generic synonym. 



