Feb., '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



The first five descriptions do not, at present suggest to me 

 any of our known species; by "American Islands," I assume 

 the West Indies are meant, although Walsingham seems to 

 have entirely overlooked these species in his two papers on 

 West Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. The last is certainly a per- 

 fect, condensed description of sulfur eana Clemens, and unless 

 further evidence is forthcoming to prove the contrary. Dr. 

 Turton or Fabricius will succeed Clemens as the author, but 

 fortunately, with little change in name. Incidentally, it may be 

 worth while for students in the Macro-Lepidoptera as well as 

 in the lower Tineids to consult this work, as American refer- 

 ences are not restricted to the Tortricids. 



Mr. A. Busck is responsible for the following change of 

 name, and I am indebted to him for calling my attention to 

 the error of Walker, which he discovered, while ex- 

 amining Walker's American types in the British Museum. 



Platynota idaeusalis Walker. 



Hypena (?) idaeusalis Walk., Cat. Br. Mus., XIX, 839, 1859. 



Platynota sen tana Clem., Pr. A. N. Sci. Ph., 348, 1860. 



Tortrix sentana Rob., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. II, 277, 1869. 



Tortr. (Platyn.) sentana Zell., V. Z. b. Ges. Wien., XXV, 235, 1875. 



Bomolocha idaeusalis Dyar., Bull. 52, U. S. N. M., No. 3078, 1902. 



Platynota sentana Fern., Bull. 52, U. S. N. M., No. 5387, 1902. 



Bomolocha idaeusolis Smith, Smith's List, Lep. No. Am., No. 33111. 



1903. 

 Platynota sentana Kearf., Smith's List, Lep. No. Am., No. 5804, 1903. 



Prof. Smith suspected this species to belong to the Tortri- 

 cidae as evidenced by foot-note on page 60 of his 1903 list. 



In Syst. Eleotheratorum, Tornus I, page 138, 1801, Fabricius 

 uses the generic name Platynotus, as a genus in Coleoptera ; 

 whether this invalidates Clemens' Platynota I prefer to leave to 

 others, more skilled in generic nomenclature. 



SATYKTS PEC..M.A. Mr. Holland gives in his butterfly book on 

 xxvi a picture of the female with two eye-spots. Finding that there are 

 few flies with two eye-spots I caught a pair in coition and discovered 

 that there are two kinds of females. One with two eye-spots and the 

 other with one spot in the primaries. The latter one is more abundant. 

 This insect is hard to catch, flying in zig-zag and alighting on trees.- 

 CHAS. FAUST, Magnolia Springs, Baldwin Co., Ala. 



