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(Lithomoia, Hiibner), has a more quadrately scaled and 

 loose, hairy thorax, hairier palpi and larger abdominal tufts. 

 My only male has the ciliate antennae of cinefacta, which is its 

 closest ally. 



Perigea alfkenii Grt. 



Grote applied this name to the type of his perplexa without 

 locality, in the Neumcegen collection at Brooklyn. I have the 

 species from Arizona and California, and it stands correctly 

 named, under Namangana Staud, in the British Museum. But 

 the species has hairy eyes, which has been overlooked by 

 Hampson, as he treats the genus as smooth-eyed. The hairs 

 are very fine, short and sometimes, even in apparently un- 

 rubbed specimens, very scarce and difficult to see with a pow- 

 erful lens even in strong sunlight. Perigea latens Sm., de- 

 scribed from San Diego, Cal., and Yuma Co., Ariz. (Journ. N. 

 Y. Ent. Soc., xvi, p. 92, June, 1908), has also hairy eyes and 

 is, in my opinion, the same species. I have a good series from 

 the first-named type locality. The type labels, by the way, 

 read patens. 



Taeniocampa occluna Smith. 



.Described in the same journal, xvii, p. 64, June, 1909, from 

 a single male from Mesilla Park, New Mexico. Its author 

 states under the description that the antennae are very shortly 

 pectinate, almost serrate only. I had overlooked that state- 

 ment, but failed to notice any external difference from alfkenii. 

 to which I have referred the species in my notes. Alfkenii has 

 male antennae bipectinate, with rather short branches above 

 the shaft and shorter ones beneath it. The upper row of 

 branches cannot be called "almost serrate" in any of my speci- 

 mens. A confirmation of antennal differences is necessary to 

 convince me that occluna is not alfkenii. 



Eupolia licentiosa Smith. 



Described in 1894 from a pair from Utah in the Neumcegen 

 collection, the genus being created to receive it. But the spe- 

 cies has hairy eyes, though the hairs, being very short and 



