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The blunder was mine, based on insufficient material. I am much less 

 ready nowadays to believe in the specific identity of European and 

 American species. Oregona is near to and represents ononis, as plilo- 

 gopliagus represents dipsaceous. So, also, Mr. Butler seems not to know 

 that I am responsible for uniting Atlomsea with MeliSleptrittj a union 

 which I still consider perfectly proper. 



Genus MELICLEPTRIA Hbn. 

 1816. Hiibuer, Verzeichniss, 262. 



M. celeris Grt. 



1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., I, 148, MeUcleptria. 

 1882. Grt., New List, 36, Euros. 



1882. Grt., Can. Eut., xiv, 171, MeUcleptria. 



1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc., x, 244, MeUcleptria. 



HABITAT. Southern California. 

 The type is in the Edwards collection. 



M. pulchripennis Grt.* 



1874. Grt., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 241, MeUcleptria. 



1875. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., n, 220, Adonisea. 



1882. Grt., 111. Essay, 62, pi. in, f. 31, Adonisea. 



1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x, 244, MeUcleptria. 

 languida Hy. Edw. 



1881. Hy. Edw., Papilio, I, 20, pr. var. 



1883. Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc., x, 244, pr. syn. 



HABITAT. California ; Colorado. 



I have not seen the type. The British Museum specimens seem not 

 to be such; but are the species commonly so known in American collec- 

 tions. 



M. grsefiana Topper. 



1883. Tepper, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x, 245, MeUcleplria. 



HABITAT. Southern California. 

 The type is in the Tepper collection. 



M. villosa Grt.* 



1864. Grt., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., in, 531, pi. vi, f. 6, MeUcleptria. 

 1868. G. R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., m, 181, Anlhcecia. 

 1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., X, 244, MeUcleptria. 



pauxillus Grt. 



1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 118, pi. m, f. 6, HeliolMs. 

 1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x, 244, pr. syn. 



var. persimilis Grt. 



J.873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 117, pi. in, f. 11, ReliotUi. 

 1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x, 244, pr. syn. 



HABITAT. Colorado; California. 



The type of villosa should be in the collection of the American 

 Entomological Society; but I have not found it there. The type of 

 pauxillus is in the Tepper collection; a type of persimilis is in the Brit- 

 ish Museum, and another specimen, also marked " type," is in the Tepper 

 collection. 



