PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON. 



VOL. XII OCTOBER DECEMBER, 1910 No. 4 



NOTES ON MEGALOPYGID^E. 



[Lepidoptera; Megalopygidae. ] 

 BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 



The types of two species described as Carama prove on 

 examination not to belong to the Megalopygidae. They are 

 the following: 



Maenas flavescens Schaus. 



Carama flavescens Schaus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., iv, 57, 1896. 



The single female type belongs to the genus Mcenas in the 

 Arctiidae. It appears to be distinct from any of the described 

 species recorded by Hampson. 



Caviria grisea Schaus. 



Carama grisea Schaus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., iv, 57, 1896. 



The single male type belongs to the genus Caviria in the 

 Liparidae. It is a stout species, allied to Caviria tibialis 

 Walker. 



The table of genera of Megalopygidae which was published 

 by Mr. Schaus (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxix, 333, 1905), has 

 proved unsatisfactory, because the primary character there 

 used, the degree of anastomosing of vein 8 with the cell, dif- 

 fers in the sexes of the same species and is besides somewhat 

 variable. I have therefore eliminated this character, with the 

 resuic given below. I formerly proposed a family, Aididae, 

 for Aidos and BmchycodiUa, but this group has not been 

 accepted, and I therefore include the genera here. I think 

 really that the family should stand, for according to Hamp- 

 son's latest table (Cat. Lep. Phal., i, 19, 1898) it falls between 

 the Cossidae and Dalceridaa, to neither of which do the genera 

 seem to belong. 



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