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Hampson refers rcsoluta to illcpida, to which Smith objected. 

 The male type is in the Washington Museum, the female in 

 Smith's collection. J have a specimen compared with the male 

 type, and so far as that is concerned consider Hampson's ref- 

 erence quite correct. The female type has a clearer, whiter 

 ground than any I had before seen, and it seemed as if it might 

 be distinct from the male. Hampson uses the generic term 

 Andropolia Grt. for these species. 



Polia speciosa Morr. 



I have seen the type of this, a female from Cambridge, 

 Mass., in the Graef collection at Brooklyn. I at once noted it 

 as a pale, brightly marked and contrasting Hadena devastatrix. 

 I communicated this note to Smith in March, 1910, at which 

 time I was in correspondence with him concerning a number 

 of points on which we had differed. After re-examining the 

 type himself he wrote : "The species has nothing to do with 

 devastatrix. Fortunately it has one hind leg left and this shows 

 the Agrotid structure. It is a Pcridroma, and very close to 

 praefixa." The Agrotid structure referred to of course meant 

 tibial spines. This seemed to be equivalent to saying that dc- 

 vastatrix possessed tibial spines. I forthwith hunted through 

 my series, and found that about fifteen per cent, of them had, 

 varying from one to three on each hind tibia. As, therefore, 

 the possession of hind tibial spines by speciosa does not dis- 

 prove its being dcrastatri.r, I must be guided by my original 

 note. 



Semiophora atoma Smith (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii, 126, April, 

 1907). 



Described from a $ and nine $ 9 taken at treacle by Mr. J. 

 A.. Grossbeck at Lakehurst, X. J. I have one of the female co- 

 types, which I have compared with the types in Smith's collec- 

 tion, and also with the climata series in the British Museum. 

 1 cannot see that the description applies to anything more than 

 small poorly marked specimens of eliniata, of which Smith's 

 male type has the antennae. Hampson makes janualis "ab. 2." 

 of eliniata, "like typical form, but without the black streak in 

 the cell." There are a pair of types of jannalis in the British 



