48 Tlffi CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



There are a few inaccuracies and omissions among the Bombyces 

 which I should like to notice : — 



Family Nycteolida?, page 23, add Sarrothripa reveyana, S. V. (See 

 Hy. Edw., Bull. 35, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 55). 



Family LithosiidcC, No- 966, Moia minuscu/a, Zeller, should have 

 precedence as it was described in 1872 (Verb., d. k. k. Zool. Bot., Gesell. 

 XXII. , ^c,^),\v\\\\q fuscula, Grt., was not described till 1881 (Papilio, 



I-' 76)- 



Family Arctiidte, p. 27, No. iii3(?, Arctia sciurus, Bdv., is given as 



a variety oi Euchcetes collar is. Mr. Hy. Edwards once stated to me that 



it was the same as his E. yosemite. This would be a more probable 



synonymy, sciurus having precedence. 



Family Liparidse, p. 28, No. 1166, \'^zWtx'% clandestiiia w2a referred 

 to Gluphisia by Mr. Grote (Can. Ent., IX , 21), but I do not know it, 

 and it may really be Dasychira. 



Family Notodontidee, p. 30, add Gluphisia avimacula, Hudson. No. 

 1277 is the same as No. 1285, Pheosia dimidiata, H.-S , and I am of the 

 opinion that P. rimosa and P. cali/oniica are synonyms of this. (See 

 Psyche, VI., 194.) No. 1289, Edema albicosta is given as a synonym of 

 E. albifrons. The forms can be distinguished, and I am not aware that 

 they have been proven varieties. Nos. 1300 and 1302 are better referred 

 to Schiznra in my opinion. (See Psyche, VI., 177.) Page 31, No. 1339 

 is probably a synonym of No. 1345. No. J 342a is not a variety of 

 Centra occidentalis, but of C. cinerea. Perhaps I am responsible for this 

 error, as my table in Can. Ent., XXIII. , 87, may be a little ambigu- 

 ous, for I placed the var. ciiiereoides before cinerea instead of after it on 

 account of the arrangement of tiie table. No. 1343, C. sciiiscripta is 

 given as a synonym of C. cinerea. This is surely a mistake. So far as I 

 know it is a good species, and I have referred Candida., Lint., as a variety 

 of it, and not of cinerea, as it stands. C. Candida, Lintn., has no 

 afifinity with cinerea, but the three forms, sciiiscripta, Candida and 

 multiscripta, constitute a distinct group of the genus. Add Cerura 

 modesta, Hudson. 



Family Ceratocampidte, p. 32, add Dyocampa riversii, Behr. 



Family Bombycid^, p. 2,Z^ Hemileiica neumoegeni, Hy. Edw., seems 

 to have been overlooked. No. 1401, Clisiocampa strigosa, Str., is a 

 synonym of C. constricta, Str. Gastropacha alescensis, Pack., seems to 

 be wanting. (See Stretch, Zyg. and Bomb., N. A., p. 113.) No. i^igy^ 

 should be Jhauma rihis, to keep the original orthography. (See Hy. 

 Edw., Proc. Cal., Acad. Sci., V., 265.) And, finally, Eutheca mora, 

 Grote, has been left out. (See Bull., U. S. Geol. and Geog. Sur. Terr., 

 Haydn, VI., 257.) 



The list will be the standard for some time to come, and should be in 

 the possession of every entomologist. 



Harrison G. Dvar. 



Mailed February 6th. 



