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Grote persistently used his name for this species, though both of Mr. 

 Morrison's names antedate it by two years. The Walker name will 

 probably have enough priority to secure recognition. 



Eustrotia obaurata Morr., and Era-stria pustulaht are both = = Aryy- 

 rophyes nigrofasciata Zell. The other species erroneously described as 

 Erastria will be found elsewhere referred to. 



Genus THALPOCHARES Led. 

 1853. Led., Verb. k. k. zool. l...t. Ges., 1853. 

 1857. Lederer, Noct. Europas, 184. 



T. aetheria Grt. 



1879. Grt., No. Amer. Ent., i, 47, Thtilpix-luircs. 



1880. Grt., Can. Ent., xii, 59, Thalpoi-lnin-x. 



HABITAT. Florida. 



Mr. G rote's type is in the British Museum. 



T. flammicincta Wlk.* 



18G5. Wlk., C. B.Mus., Het., xxxin, 801, Anthoplnla. 

 patula Morr. 



1875. Morr., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1875, 69, TarnrJic. 

 1880. Grt., Bull. Bkln. Ent. Soc., in, 38, Thalpovhurw. 

 1880. Grt., Can. Ent., xn, 57, Thalpochares. 



patruelis Grt. 



1876. Grt., Can. Ent., vin, 27, Taraclie. 



1880. Grt., Bull. Bkln. Ent. Soc., in, 38, pr. syn. 

 1880. Grt., Can, Ent., xii, 57, Thalpochares. 

 1892. Butler, Entomologist, xxv, 189, Eumestleta. 



HABITAT. Texas, October and November; San Domingo. 



Mr. Morrison's type is in the Tepper collection; Mr. Grote's is in the 

 British Museum. Mr. Butler has made this species the type of a new 

 genus, Eumestleta; with what justice, I am not prepared to say. The 

 fact that I do not use the genus here indicates only that it was pub- 

 lished so late that the addition referring to it was made in proof. I 

 did not see the type of Anthophila flammicincta at the British Museum ; 

 but the species is so well marked that I have no hesitation in accepting 

 Mr. Butler's determination. He suggests that the species may be 



Deltoid! 



T. carmelita Morr.* 



1875. Morr., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1875, 434, Thalpocliarcs. 



HABITAT. Texas; Mississippi; California. 

 The type is in the Tepper collection. 



T. mundula Zell.* 

 1872. Zell., Verb. k. k. zool. bot. Ges., xxn, 460, pi. 2, f. 4, Thalpochares. 



HABITAT. Texas, May and June. 



The type is in the Museum at Cambridge. It is a curious species, 

 strongly resembling Pleonectyptera in appearance and in uiaculatiou. 



