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Slossonia latipennis Hulst (Can. Ent., xxx, 217, 1898). The 

 type of this species is a single female in the U. S. National 

 Museum. In examining the museum collection in 1907 through 

 the courtesy of Dr. Dyar, I found this type to be a much faded 

 specimen of our common Anaplodes remotaria Walk. 



Caber odes minima Hulst (Can. Ent., xxx, 219, 1898). 

 Though originally described as a species "quite different in 

 appearance from the ordinary Caberodes" Hulst nevertheless 

 lists it as variety b of our common C. confusaria in Bull. 52, 

 U. S. N. M. Besides being little over half as large as average 

 sized specimens of that variable species it may be at once dis- 

 tinguished by the course of the extradiscal line which in con- 

 fusaria always extends almost to the apex before bending in 

 toward the costa, while in minima this line does not terminate 

 further out on the costa than two-thirds the length of the 

 costa from the base. It has other minor differences, and alto- 

 gether the species are as distinct from one another as two 

 species may well be. The conclusion of the specific distinct- 

 ness of minima was reached from the type alone but I have 

 now two additional specimens from Dr. Barnes which exhibit 

 the differences noted above even more strongly than does the 

 type. 



Selidosema sericcata Hulst (Can. Ent., xxx, 191. 1898). 

 This is identical with the species previously described by Grote 

 as Phasiane colata (Papilio I, 167, 1881) and later referred 

 by Hulst (Ent. Am., II, 224, 1886) as a synonym of Sciagra- 

 phia nubiculata Pack. The two do not belong in the same 

 genus. Nubiculata is a true Sciagraphia. Sericcata is now 

 placed with corrcllatum Hulst, a near relative, in the genus 

 Selidosema. This is hardly the final resting place for either 

 form, but until a complete revision of the species comprising 

 the Boarminse group is made it will perhaps be as well to re- 

 tain them in that genus. 



Ere many days have vanished, we 

 Will hear the gay mosquito call, 



"I'm busier than the busiest bee. 

 And yet I get no praise at all." Judge. 



