OF WASHINGTON". 59 



to Dr. LeConte asking his co-operation in determining the 

 species in his collection, but had received no reply. He, there 

 fore, worked almost entirely unaided, gave names to such species 

 as he could identify, and labelled all others with his own manu 

 script names. 



Mr. Schwarz stated that there were various things concerning 

 Fitch's collection and Fitch's types, which seem to be unknown 

 to many of our younger entomologists. He more especially 

 referred to the insects sold by Dr. Fitch to the New York State 

 Agricultural Society and which are now in the New State 

 Museum at Albany. This collection probably does not contain 

 any type specimens whatever. What is a type in the Fitch col 

 lection can only be ascertained by consulting Fitch's note-books. 

 Six of these note-books, with the corresponding boxes of the 

 original Fitch collection, were bought many years ago by the 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture and are now in the U. S. Na 

 tional Museum. The record of the types, as given by Dr. Riley 

 in Lintner's paper on the Fitch collection,* is correct. The 

 rema : ning note-books of Fitch became separated from the Fitch 

 collection, and some of them are now in the possession of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History. The others seem to be lost. 

 The remnant of the Fitch collection of insects was finally pur 

 chased by the Department of Agi'culture, but proved to be in a 

 very deplorable state of preservation. 



The subject of Fitch's types, and types in general, was further 

 discussed by Messrs. Ashmead, Hopkins, Titus, Schwarz, Dyar 

 and Banks. 



Dr. Dyar handed the following articles to the Secretary for 

 publication : 



A NEW VARIETY OF THE NOCTUID EXYRA 

 SEMICROCEA GUENEE. 



{Exyra semicrocea, variety hubbardiana, n. var.) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



The usual form of semicrocea has the outer half of the fore 

 wings solidly blackish. In hubbardiana this color is largely 



* Ninth Kept. N. Y. State Ent. for the year 1892, pp. 411-413, 1893. 



