134 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the insect was transported to England and through the vicissitudes 

 encountered an aberration was produced. I have no hesitation in referring 

 the species as a suffused aberrant grata. 



Comacla simplex., Wlk. 



Coniada 7mirina, Wlk. 



1865 — Wlk., Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., Het. xxxi., 276, 



Both the above species are the same as Vajiessodes clams, G. & R., 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iii., 176, and Walker's names, generic and specific, 

 have priority. The reference above given refers to C. 7niirina, Wlk. The 

 reference to C. simplex, Wlk., I have mislaid in some way, and have not 

 at present access to the books to replace it. The name is earlier than 

 murijia, however, if uiy recollection serves, and must stand for the 

 species. This unites numbers 994, 995 and 991 of my list. East Florida 

 is given by Walker as the locality for the species ; but the specimens are 

 probably from Texas. Quite a number of species credited to " East 

 Florida " in the British Museum are almost certainly from Texas. 



Cothocida nigrifera, Wlk. 



1865 — Wlk., Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., Het. xxxii., 499. 



This was described among the Limacodidse by Walker, and is No. 

 1 2 13 in my list. The type specimen is a species of Crocota with very 

 dark primaries and almost black secondaries. I cannot recollect having 

 before seen any species quite so dark in colour. The locality is given as 

 " North America." 

 Arctia rhoda, Butler. 



1881 — Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. xviii., 135. 

 Arctia ochreata, Butler. 



1 88 1. — Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. xviii., 135. 



The types of the above species are usual forms of nais, Dru., easily 

 matched in any good series of specimens. The term ochreata applies to 

 the common yellow form. These references are made in my list from the 

 descriptions, and are now justified by the comparison of the types. 

 Arctia radians, Wlk. 



1856 — Wlk., Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., Het. iii., 632, Apantesis. 



The type is that form of decorata, Saunders, in which the primaries 

 are almost immaculate, the pale colour reduced to a forked line on the 

 median vein. If this lorni is distinct from nais Walker's name hag 

 priority, Mr, Saunders's specieg having been described in 1863. 



