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And although this Canon purports to relate only to groups higher 

 than genera, the same reasons which would favor such an application 

 cover genera also. And accordingly we find of late several entomological 

 systematists wholly ignoring the Rule which requires definition of genera, 

 and in the most reckless fashion indicating genera by the mere mention 

 of types. 



Of the 1,104 generic names in the Hist. Sketch, 283 are taken from 

 the Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, a work of which. I propose to 

 speak in a subsequent paper, and 57 are taken from the Tentamen and 

 other works of Hiibner, making a total of 340, or about 30 per cent. 

 Scarcely one of all these can stand without displacing a name applied, 

 with requisite definition and publication, by Doubleday, Boisduval, West- 

 wood and other eminent authors, and the aggregate represents a vast sum 

 of injustice. 



NEW CALIFORNIAN AND TEXAN MOTHS. 



BY LEON F. HARVEY, A. M., M. D., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



(Concluded from February No., Page 38.) 



Hadefia Dimbari, n. s. 



Eyes naked, tibiae unarmed, tufting of body obsolete, so that it 

 approaches oligia, but is stouter than those species. Fore wings light 

 gray, basal line black, distinct ; t. a. line geminate, black outwardly and 

 white inwardly, irregular ; t. p. line geminate, produced above the reni- 

 form, curved outward, joining the reniform inferiorly. Median shade 

 black, distinct. Orbicular round, white, with black annulus, with a dark 

 centre ; reniform subquadrate, black margined, having a carneous centre; 

 claviform outwardly well expressed, concolorous, with a black border ; 

 s. t. line white, dentate, preceded by a black streak, obsolete opposite the 

 reniform ; an apical black streak. White dots on the costa in the 

 s. t. space. Terminal line black, fringes concolorous and finely cut with 

 white. Beneath cinereous ; light outer border with terminal line well 

 marked. Median shade (mite evident on costa ; alternate white and 

 black costal marks. Hind wings smoky white, veins soiled, fringes 



