BULLETIN 52, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



OPHEROPTERA Hubner. 



HUBNER, Verz. lick. Schmett, 321, 1818; PACKARD, C. 197; HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc., xxiii, 151, 1896; Chciiniitoliin. STEPHENS, Nom. Brit. Ins., 44, 1829; WEST- 

 WOOD & HUMPHREYS, Brit. Moths, ii, 57, 1849. 



3238. boreata HUBNER, Schm. Eur., f. 414, 1820; PACK- Arctic 



AKD, C. 198; DIMMOCK, Psyche, iv, 243, 1885; No. Am., 

 HULST, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 252, 1896; Eur. 



HOFMANN, Gross. Sch. Eur., 199, 1894; KIRBY, 

 Eur. Butt., 388, 1882. 



PARAPTERA Hulst. 

 HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 252, 1896. 



*3239. danbyi HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, , xxiii, 252, 



1896. 



RACHELA Hulst. 

 HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc,., xxiii, 253, 1896. 



3240. bruceata HULST, Ent. Amer., ii, 123, 1886. 



3241. hyperborea HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 

 254, 1896. 



3242. occidentalis HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 

 254, 1896. 



*3243. latipennis HTLST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 

 254, 1896. 



No. Pac. 

 States. 



No. Atl. 

 States. 



Alaska. 



No. Pac. 



States. 



Cal. 



Subfamily 



PALEACRITA Riley. 



RILEY, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, iii, 273, 1875; HULST, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 



257, 1896. 



*3244. longiciliata HULST, Can. Ent., xxx, 113, 1898. 



3245. vernata PECK, Mass. Mag., 323, 415, 1795; 

 PACKARD, C. 4<>2; RIT.EY, Rep. Ins. Mo., i, 109; 

 ii, 94; vi, 28; vii, 80; viii, 13, 1874; SAUNDERS, 

 Ins. Inj. Fr., 61, 1883; PACKARD, Bull. U. S. Ent. 

 Comm., vii. 61, 1882; RILEY, Rept. U. S. Ent. 

 Comm., iii, 157, 170, 1882; FRENCH, 111. Rept., 

 vii, 110, 239, 1877; HULST, Ent. Amer., iv, 51, 

 1888. 



syn. sericeiferata WALKER, Cat. Brit. Mus., 

 xxv, 1697, 1862; PACKARD, C. 454; HULST, 

 Ent. .News, vi, 42, 1895; <iiitmnnt(i PACK- 

 ARD, C. 400. 



a. merriccata DYAR (dark gray, the discal dot 

 large, white, dark edged; other markings 

 broken and reduced). 



Cal. 



Atl. 



States, 



Col., 



Cal. 



3246. speciosa HULST, Can. Ent, xxx, 113, 18l>8. 



Col. 



