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cending, third joint long, conical ; <$ antennae simple. Light gray with 

 heavy black shades. Basal space darkly shaded to inner line, which is 

 upright, flexuous or slightly dentate, pale, followed bv a broad black shade. 

 Discal dots small, fused into a larger spot 'in one specimen. Outer line 

 bent inward slightly on the folds, with black shades on both sides, the 

 outer covering the terminal space. Hind wings dark with pale fringes. 

 Expanse 17 to 19 mm. 



One d% four 99, Tryon, N. C., May 12 to 21, 1904 (W. F. 

 Fiske). 



Type. No. 8141, U. S. National Museum. 



A FEW NOTES ON THE HULST COLLECTION. 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



I have recently spent a few hours in looking over the Hulst 

 collection, and have noted some points that seem worthy of rec 

 ord. A full commentary on the synonymy of the Hulst types 

 cannot be made without more extensive comparison of specimens. 



The collection is now placed in a small basement room in the 

 Rutgers College library, where it has been carefully installed by 

 Dr. J. B. Smith. I was told that the specimens stand as Dr. 

 Hulst left them, having been simply transferred to drawers, and 

 that there have been practically no additions made. This is most 

 commendable. I hope that when additions are made they will 

 be clearly marked so that they cannot be confounded with the 

 original collection, the specimens of which should not be trans 

 ferred or replaced. The collection is smaller than I had sup 

 posed it to be and weak in the number of specimens of each 

 species, there being no long series and most frequently only one 

 or two specimens. It is, however, very rich in types. The 

 specimens themselves are seldom in good condition, some of the 

 types even being nearly unrecognizable. 



But the most surprising feature is the general condition of con 

 fusion of the species. This is due to no accident, but must be 

 attributed to the peculiarities of the founder of the collection. 

 Dr. Hulst seems to have had absolutely no eye for specific indi 

 viduality, placing the most incongruous forms under the same 

 label. Even his types are in this condition and I believe that 

 where he has more than one type of a species they are more often 

 different than conspecific. For example, of the two types of 

 Philereme tmiltivagata, one is Eustroma explanation. Under 

 Caberodes majoraria Gn. are four specimens, one of which 

 bears the red label " typical." The three are normal majoraria, 



