554 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



Notes on Some N. A. Geometrina and Pyralidina.. 



BY GEO. D. HULST. 



GEOMETRINA. 



(Continued from p. 531, Vol xi, No. 7.) 



It is a matter of interest that Mr. Aurivilius, of Sweden, has, 

 from a study of the type of Fabricius, ascertained that Phahcna 

 tcrata Fabr. is the same as Synchlota glaucata Guen. (rnbirora 

 Riley). Fabricius described another N. A. species as Phalirna 

 bicolorata, which is not yet determined, but may be Cymatophora 

 distribnraria Htibn. But as Fabricius had already described a 

 Phahrna bicolorata from South Ameria, his name in any event 

 falls for the American insect. 



Mr. Cross wrote me that, at my request, he had made an 

 examination of certain types of Dr. Packard. He considers 

 Asthcna brunneifasciata Pack., as at best, a variety of Aatlioia 

 a Ib if era Walk, (albogilvaria Morr. ). He also does not consider 

 Boarmia polygrammaria Pack, a good species, and is also of 

 the opinion that Endropia apiciaria Pack, and Endropia pilo- 

 saria are variations of the same species. 



I would like just here to give my testimony to the character 

 and worth of Mr. Edward Winslow Cross, who, a few months 

 since, came to an untimely end. He was a young man of great 

 refinement and culture, and did his work thoroughly and pati- 

 ently. He had in him, by education and tendency, the making 

 of one of the best of entomologists, as by nature he had in him 

 the making of one of the noblest. The science met with a very 

 great loss in his passing away from us. 



Prof. Forbes' Kept. State Ent. , Ills., xiv, 95, 1885, describes 

 an insect as Biston upsilon. Not long since my attention was 

 called to this description, and Prof. Forbes very kindly sent 

 me material for study. I find it is the insect afterwards de- 

 scribed by me as Nacophora carlotta. Whether there are any 

 more descriptions of Geometers buried in the myriads of State, 

 personal and Experiment Station Reports, I do not know. If 

 original descriptions are made in such reports it would SLVIU 

 some note of the fact ought to be made in some regularly 

 issued scientific journal, or better, a duplicate description be 

 given there. This insect does not seem to be uncommon in 



