igoo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 52J 



Notes on Some N. A. Geometrina and Pyralidina. 



BY GEO. D. HULST. 



GEOMETRINA. 



Dr. Dyar writes me that Mr. Hampson made use of the term 

 Epiplemidae to express the family or subfamily called by Mr. 

 Meyrick Strophidiadae and by myself Strophidiinse. Mr 

 Hampson' s name has priority. 



I think I am warranted in removing Dcptalia insularia Guen. 

 from the Sterrhidse and placing it in a subfamily by itself to be 

 called Deptaliinae. In the hind wings it has the peculiar vena- 

 tion of the Sterrhidae, but the fore wings are very decidedly 

 different. The cell is very short, shorter than of any other 

 Geometer I know of, and it is entirely anomalous in having 

 veins 7, 8, 9, 10 and n on one stem. 



Nyderosea Hulst, a genus of Hydriomenia (Tr. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. xxiii, 263, 1896), is a synonym of Tcphrodystis Hubn. 

 In my classification Tephrodystis is said to have two accessory 

 cells. It has one only. 



Rhaphidodcmas Hulst, described as a genus of the Ennominae 

 (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 362, 1896), I find cannot be definitely 

 separated from Phigalia Hubn. 



The specimen I regarded as dcplanaria Guen. , upon which I 

 made Paraph ia Guen. distinct from Amilapis Guen., was not 

 dcplanaria at all. My determination was, therefore, incorrect, 

 and the genus Amilapis must be a synonym of Paraphia. 



In my classification I made Emplocia Guen. a synonym of 

 Mdanoptilon H. Sch. I made a mistake in this, and I do not 

 know that Mdanoptilon is represented in our Fauna. Our 

 species will be catalogued under Emplocia. 



I find upon further examination I cannot find a satisfactor\ 

 distinction between the genera Hypcritis Guen. and Xanthro- 

 typc Warr. The type of the first is ainican'a H. Sch. and of 

 the second crocataria Fabr. In crocataria the wings are less 

 angulate and the male scarcely at all angulate, but no line can 

 be drawn between the species. Hypocharia H. Sch., has bi- 

 pectinate antennae in the 9 and must be in the same genus, 

 and gives in form a connecting link between the two other 

 species. 



