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as well as the private collections of Messrs. L. W. Swett, of 

 Bedford, Mass., and Wm. H. Broadwell, of Newark, N. J. 

 We are also indebted to Mr. Wm. T. Davis, of Staten Island, 

 for the loan of a specimen identified by Mr. Grote as his 

 miserulata. 



My first step was to straighten out the species in the Hulst 

 collection at New Brunswick, the result of which forms the 

 bulk of the present paper; then Mr. Pearsall and myself 

 worked over the material in the Brooklyn Institute Museum, 

 following which Mr. Pearsall came to New Brunswick and 

 corroborated most of my conclusions. At Prof. Smith's sug- 

 gestion I went to Cambridge to study the Packard types, and 

 Mr. Pearsall spent a few days at Washington in looking over 

 the collection there, so that nearly all the types of our eastern 

 species have been seen. 



At the commencement of our work we were not aware that 

 Mr. Geo. W. Taylor, of Wellington, was working over the 

 species of the same general territory, believing that he was 

 confining himself to the northwestern fauna, as far as this 

 genus was concerned. The appearance of his paper* has there- 

 fore anticipated some of our work, and as a result Mr. Pear- 

 sall has left me to publish such of my notes as might con- 

 tribute toward a better understanding of the group. 



Eupithecia nebulosa Hulst (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 266, 1896). 



This species was described from specimens taken in New 

 York, New Jersey and Texas. Considering the wide range 

 given it would appear as though two species were confounded, 

 but from a study of all the types, except the New Jersey 

 specimen, no characters can be found that are not common to 

 all specimens. The Texan types are rather abraded and it is 

 obvious that the description was not drawn from them ; there- 

 fore should it eventually turn out that two species are con- 

 fused, the name should be held on the eastern one. All the 

 types examined, save one from Texas, are in the Hulst col- 

 lection at New Brunswick ; the odd specimen is in the Brooklyn 

 Institute Museum. 



* Can. Ent., xxxix, 164. 



