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New Synonyms in the Noctuidae (Lep.). 



By W.M. BARNES, M.D., and A. W. LINDSEV, PH.D., 

 Decatur, Illinois. 



The recent appearance in the Insccutor Inscitiac Mcnstruns 

 of two articles by Dr. H. G. Dyar, describing new species of 

 Lepidoptera, has led us to make a careful examination of our 

 series standing as Calophasia strigata Smith and Ccrapoda 

 oblita Grote. We find that strigata has the front tarsi armed 

 with curved, claw-like spines, though they are relatively a little 

 smaller than those found in oblita. The species should there- 

 fore be removed to Ccrapoda. We believe that Calophasia 

 will drop from the North American fauna. 



We regret to say that we must disagree with the synonymy 

 proposed by Dr. Dyar for these species (Ins. Ins. Menst. ix, 

 63). The type of oblita is in the British Museum, and was 

 figured by Sir George F. Hampson (Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. 

 vi, 181). Dr. McDunnough examined the type in person some 

 years ago, and we have in our possession a specimen compared 

 by him. This specimen was figured in the Contributions vol. ii, 

 no. 1, pi. v, fig. 4. Our identification of strigata is also based 

 on a specimen compared with the type, which is in the National 

 Museum. 



While the marks of strigata and oblita are similar, the for- 

 mer species is smaller, its primaries darker and more evenly 

 gray, and the reniform entirely lacks the heavy white mark 

 which characterizes oblita. The fact that Dr. Dyar has access 

 to the type of strigata leads us to believe that it is this grav 

 species which he treats as oblita-strigata. His description of 

 arrosta bears this out, for this description, as well as fig. 17, 

 pi. xx of Holland's Moth Book, comes well within the range 

 of variation exhibited by our series of oblita. It seems that 

 these species should stand as follows : 



Genus CERAPODA Smith. 



1. OBLITA Grote. 1877, Bull. Geog. Surv. Terr. Hi. 117. Oncoaianis. 



1906, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vi, I SI. Ccrapoda. 



1913, Barnes & McDunnough, Cont. Nat. Hist. I.q . X. A. ii (i), 12. 

 pi. v, figs. 3, 4. Ccrapoda (Oncocncinis} . 



*stritjata Holland (not Smith). 1903, Moth Book 170, pi. xx, fig. 17. 

 Calophasia. 



