150 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Clodiana, Essay fig. lo, and semidarata, Essay, fig. 9. This latter is 

 smaller and slighter, bright reddish-brown, with a thick black basal dash 

 absorbing the long claviform, the hindwings dark above, beneath half- 

 pale. The former is stouter, obscure purplish-brown with a yellow tinge, 

 the male with yellow streaks ; the claviform is reduced, no black basal 

 dash, hindwings soiled white with diffuse terminal shadings, beneath 

 v/anting the character of semicla^'ata ; the female is still more obscure, 

 the markings of primaries lost. The differences between these two forms 

 seem certainly specific. In the Check List I have besides accorded 

 specific rank to the following names, which in the revision are put down 

 as varieties or synonyms : Briinneipeniiis, orbis, Icetula, cioanihoides, 

 balanitis and verticalis. As regards bru?meipen?iis, I incline to believe 

 that we may have a second eastern species smaller than cupida, and 

 variable in colour. The larger specimens from Texas are published with 

 the use of my description by Prof Smith, under the name Belfragei, and 

 probably this is the correct view. From Prof Lintner's remarks it seems 

 that ciipida is more constant in size than I thought it, although more 

 variable in colour. 



As to orbis and Icetula, they are referred by Prof Smith as synonyms 

 of cupidissima. But what Prof Smith describes as aipidissi??ia is most 

 certainly not that species but orbis. Cupidissima is really and originally 

 founded on three specimens with open orbicular and faint, shaded mark- 

 ings. A fourth, which had no discernible markings, need not concern us 

 here. I thought it a variety. I cannot account for the statement that I 

 have confounded two distinct species, one with the orbicular open, the 

 other with the orbicular closed. Most assuredly, so far as I can see and 

 remember, and both originally in the Canadian Entomologist and 

 subsequently in the bulletin of the U. 8. Geol. Survey, I have described 

 cupidissima with the orbicular open. On the other hand I had only the 

 type of orbis. This is a smooth olive-gray species, with slightly paler 

 terminal field, and which may be held the Californian representative of 

 alternata. The orbicular is small, spherical, pale-ringed ; the closed 

 round orbicular suggested the name orbis. I am quite confident that 

 orbis and cupidissima are distinct species, while it is almost certain that 

 Prof. Smith has failed to recognize cupidissma under my name for it, 

 while both this and Icetula may figure as new species in the section of 

 Rhyncagrotis with open orbicular. As to cioafithoides, Prof. Smith says 

 albalis of Dr. Bailey's collection looks like a washed-out specimen of 



