142 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Sir G. F. Hampson most kindly assisted me with the identifications, 

 with the following reaults : that i, the form with dark blotches on both sets 

 of wings, is the enucUata of Guenee, the type being in Mr. R. Overthur's, 

 of France, collection ; the description is so plain, and Packard has 

 specimens compared with Guenee's type in his own collection, which I 

 have seen, therefore I believe this form is correct. In regard to S. 

 alabastraria (2), which Rev. G. W. Taylor was the first, I think, to strike 

 from our list correctly, Sir G. F. Hampson stated it to be a foieign noctuid 

 of the genus Palindia, from South or Central America, which is accurate, 

 despite Hiibner's locality ; as one can see, it does not belong to the 

 GeometridcC ; 2, the unspotted form, therefore, which was regarded as 

 alabastraria., is left without varietal name, and going back we find the 

 name restrictata. Walk. (l*late 13, fig. 52 of Pack.ird's Monograph), which, 

 b^ing the oldest, should sland ; 3, the form with blotches on fore wings 

 only was never named by (xuence or Walker, therefore I jiropose 

 the varietal name relevnta for it. Thus we have the three forms correctly 

 placed. For information on the subject, I made use of Hulst's notes on 

 Walker's types ( EiU. News, \o\. vi. No. 3, p. 72); Grote ( Frans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc, ii, J). 82, 1868); Walker in Cat. Brit. Mus.: Guenee in Spec. Gen., 9, 

 p. 505, 1857 ; Dyar in Psyche, 9, p. 165, 1901 ; Goodell, Can. Fnt., XI, 

 p. 194, 1879, and XII, p. 236, 1880; and lastly, Packard's Monograph 

 and Holland's Moth Pook. I am pleased to acknowledge the loan of 

 sjjecimens or help from the following gentlemen : Sir (i. F. Hampson, 

 Rev. G. W. Taylor, Dr. Dyar, .Mr. Grossbeck, Mr. Broadwell, and Mr. 

 Blackburn. I have a large series of sjiecimens from southern, northern 

 and western localities; my types of var. relevata are $ , New Windsor, N. 

 Y., 2, vii, 1897 : 9, New Windsor, N. V., 22, vi, 1893; co-types '$ in 

 British Museum, % in Boston Society Natural History. 



The synonymy is as follows : 



Synelys enucleata, Gn., Spec. Gen., IX, p. 505, 1857. 



( fig. 67, Plate 10, Packard's Monograph. 



) fig. 5, Plate 43, Holland's Moth Book. 

 var. a. restrictata, Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., Vol. 22, p. 722, 1861. 



rmensurata, " " " " " 35, p. 162 1, 1866. 



Syn. J continuaria, " " " " " 35, p. 1622, 1866. 



( reconditaria, " " " " " 23, p. 786, 186 1. 



[/*. alabastraria, a noctuid, drops from lists.] 



var. b. relevata [fig. by Gn., PI. 12, fig. 3, var. A], nov. var. 



