164 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A SYNONYM OF ANISOPTERYX POMETARIA. 



BY B. PICKMAN MANN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



In Dr. Packard's Monograph of the Phalaenidae, just issued, the name 

 Anisopteryx autumnata is substituted for that of A. pometaria, on the 

 ground that the name A. pometaria is a synonym of A. vernata, and I am 

 quoted as subscribing to the latter proposition. I acknowledge that in 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 382, I applied the name A. pometaria to 

 that species which was subsequently shown to be A. vernata, but it was at 

 the same time that I applied the name A. vernata to that species which I 

 should now call A. pometaria, and which Dr. Packard calls A. autumnata ; 

 I therefore have maintained throughout that the names belong to entirely 

 different species. I have endeavored, in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvi, 

 207, and verbally, to show that these names are not synonyms, and have 

 succeeded so far that after Mr. Morrison had re-named pometaria, and 

 was ready to publish his name, he withdrew it ; after Mr. Riley had pub- 

 lished a statement that pometaria Harris was not pometaria Mann,* he 

 published another,t saying that it was. I had made the same mistake 

 previously, which I now attribute to Dr. Packard, but I had not expected 

 to find it made again after it had been corrected so many times. 



Quite aside from the question of fact whether Harris did describe the 

 autumn species as pometaria or not, there could be no question that I 

 believed it, and that my writings should be so interpreted. I was sur- 

 prised, therefore, to find my description of the monstrous female of " A, 

 pometaria Harr., descr.," quoted under A. vernata, especially with a foot 

 note stating explicitly that vernata was not intended. 



My article in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 163. which treats entirely 

 of pojnetaria according to my understanding, is cited by Dr. Packard 

 under both species. 



I would therefore correct Dr. Packard's Monograph, p. 402, by erasing 

 lines 13 to 16, 20, 21, 25, and putting pometaria in place of autumnata 

 wherever it occurs in connection with these species. Moreover, the 

 monstrous female of pometaria had four aborted wings, not two, as Dr. 

 Packard states. 



* Sixth Mo. Rep., p. 29. 

 + Seventh Mo. Rep., p. 80. 



