Oct., '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 353 



Atrofasciata Pack, listed as a variety of continuata may pos- 

 sibly be a distinct species, but if not is a form of continuata 

 as here limited. 



Cymatophora tcncbrosata Hulst. In the Proc. Ent. Soc., 

 Wash., x, 87, 1908, I referred several specimens of a Cymato- 

 phora received from Dr. Dyar to this species, my determination 

 being based on a lightly colored type in the Hulst collection. 

 Recently I received two specimens of a supposedly new Ma- 

 caria from Dr. Barnes and soon after was surprised to see the 

 species in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences labeled 

 as types of tcncbrosata. A reference to Holland's figure of a 

 male type (Moth Book, pi. xliii, f. 50). which is not so well 

 delineated as most of the insects in that book, shows that it 

 too belongs to Mac aria. My first impression was that I had 

 made a mistake in my comparison with the type in the Hulst 

 collection, but a renewed examination shows that while it re- 

 sembles the other types it is a true Cymatophora and conspecific 

 with the specimens named for the National Museum. In his 

 description of tcncbrosata Hulst mentions the head and collar 

 being yellow-ochreous, a character that applies only to the 

 Macaria species ; I therefore propose to hold the name on that 

 form, and the note in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., referred to 

 will then apply to an undescribed species of Cymatophora. 



Cymatophora dcccptata Hulst (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 

 334, 1896) described from New York is a much abraded fe- 

 male example of Orthofidonia cxornata Walk. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck of the Division of Entomology, Wash- 

 ington, has called my attention to the preoccupation of Hulst's 

 generic name Sympherta (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii. 338, 

 1896) in the Hymenoptera where it is proposed by Forster 

 (Verh. d. Xaturh. ver. per, Rheinl., xxv, 196, 1868) for a genus 

 of Ichneumonidre. Sympherta, of which tripunctaria Pack, is 

 type is based on sound structural characters so I propose for 

 the genus the name Gladcla. 



I might also add in this connection that Sympherta colora- 

 dcnsis Hulst (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 338, 1896) is not 

 congeneric with tripunctaria but is referable to Cymatophora. 



