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as that he received from Mr. H. D. Merrick an error Mr. 

 Grossbeck immediately detected describing the latter as Eup. 

 sivcttii (Ent. News, Vol. 18, p. 346). Recently I received from 

 Mr. F. A. Merrick two specimens taken April 27, 1902, by H. 

 D. Merrick, presumably similar to those sent Mr. Taylor, which 

 are identified by Mr. Grossbeck as Eup. swcttii. Neither spe- 

 cies answers Grote's opening- sentence, "clear, grayish, silky;" 

 they are different shades of brown. Nebulosa Hulst must 

 stand as a synonym of miserulata Grote. 



In our eastern Eupithecias the females show a tendency to- 

 ward extreme forms of coloration, and this species is no ex- 

 ception. Ncbidosa as represented by its type from Texas in 

 the Brooklyn Tnst. Museum is one of these, but I have one ex- 

 actly like it, taken in the Catskill Mountains, also a 9- . 



Between these and the usual type of miserulata may be found 

 many gradient forms, one of which has certainly furnished 

 the basis for the species recently described by Mr. L. W. Swett 

 (Can. Ent., Vol. 39, p. 378) as Eup. grossbeckiata. which, 

 therefore, becomes a synonym of nebnlosa=iniscrnlata. This 

 latter conclusion was reached after an examination of speci- 

 mens pronounced as such by Mr. Swett in the collection of the 

 Am. Mus. of Nat. History, N. Y., and is concurred in by Mr. 

 Grossbeck also. 



Miserulata may be separated from all other species by the 

 heavily fasciculate-ciliate antennae of the male. The females 

 also have the antennae stouter and distinctly ciliate, with longer 

 single spinose hairs at intervals and in both sexes the front, 

 vertex, thorax, and wing bases are usually overlaid with yel- 

 lowish scales. Among some material loaned me by the U. S. 

 Nat. Museum, through the courtesy of Dr. Dyar, are three spec- 

 imens, also females, bearing a label "reared from larvae on com- 

 posite flowers, Selma, Ala., Oct. 1880, Patton," and beneath it 

 in same hand another "Eup. miserulata Gr.," which have on 

 palpi, front, thorax, and sparingly along costa, and in submar- 

 ginal space a sprinkling of reddish brown scales, but I cannot 

 separate them from my series, and believe them to be as Mr. 

 Patton has labeled them, miserulata Gr. It is our most com- 

 mon species, and is widely distributed. I have seen it from 

 Wis., la., Ills., Mo., Tex., Ala., Ga., N. Car., Va., Tenn., Md., 

 D. C, Penn., N. J., N. Y. and Mass. 



