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Eupithecia fumosa Hulst (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii, 269, 1896). 



Hulst named this species from at least two specimens, citing 

 South Abington, Mass., and Brockport, N. Y., as the localities 

 whence the types came. There are two specimens labelled 

 "type" at New Brunswick, one from the first mentioned 

 locality; the second, bearing an Amherst, Mass., label, 

 cannot be a type. Where the Brockport, N. Y. example is 

 and whether it is like the South Abington specimen I am 

 unable to say. It may be in the National Museum. At all 

 events, fumosa is a good species, belonging to the absinthiata 

 group. 



Eupithecia tenebrescens Hulst (Can. Ent., xxxii, 103, 1900). 



In the Monograph of Geometrid Moths, page 51, Packard de- 

 scribed a species of Eupithecia as zygadeniata, his specimens 

 coming from Bosque Co., Texas, March 23-24, from Belfrage, 

 who bred them from larvae. It appears that a specimen from Bel- 

 frage's lot found its way into Dr. Hulst's collection at a date 

 after he (Hulst) believed he had zygadeniata in his possession. 

 His determination, however, was erroneous, so he redescribed 

 it as tenebrescens, new species. The type is a beautiful female 

 specimen, evidently bred and mounted while fresh, and bears 

 a date 20/3, in Belfrage's characteristic manner of labelling. 

 It was not directly compared with Packard's type, but it is 

 a striking species, and there is no room for doubt that the two 

 names apply to one species. 



Eupithecia strattonata Pack. (Fifth Report Peab. Acad. Sci., 60, 1873). 



This species listed in our catalogues as a synonym of 

 Eucymatoge anticaria Walk., is rightly given specific rank by 

 Mr. Taylor. I have two specimens precisely like the type and 

 both have but a single accessory cell, whereas all the specimens 

 of anticaria I have seen have two. Badly rubbed examples 

 of strattonata look something like anticaria, but in good speci- 

 mens of both species there is hardly a point of resemblance 

 between them. 

 Eupithecia gelidata Moesch. (Wien. Ent. Monats., iv, 47, 1860). 



There is a Labrador specimen of this species in the Hulst 

 collection, and I have had for comparison examples of nanata, 



