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described in North America (See Goodell in Canadian Entomologist, 



Vol. IX, p. 62, food-plant, Cockscomb), but it is not possible now to say 



to which of our species this description will refer. The larva of the real 



absynthiata of Europe feeds on the flowers of species of Senecio, 



Eiipatormm, Artejfiisia, Achillea and Solidago. It is described by 



Packard (Monograph, p. 50), who quotes verbatim from Newman (British 



Moths, p. 136), but Newman is there quoting from Crewe (Entomologists' 



Annual, 1861, p. 140) and has made some curious verbal alterations. 



The name absynthiata must, I .think, be struck off our lists. 



Eup. scriptaria, Herr. Sch., Schm. Eur., Ill, 121, 1847.— This '^ a 



mountain-loving species, said to have been found in Labrador, and for 



that reason is given a place on our list. 



Three species recently described by me, namely, E. regitia, E. 

 modesta and E. obumbrata, are near allies oi scriptaria, but I think quite 

 distinct. I have a beautiful bred specimen from Switzerland in my 

 cabinet, and should not have any difficulty in recognizing the species 

 should it turn up in any of our northern localities, 



Eiip. coagulata^ Guenee, Spec. Gen., X, 339, 1.857. — This species is 

 stated by Packard to be the same as his E. geminata, and both are sunk 

 in the Monograph as synonyms of absynthiata. 



If I am correct in what I have said above as to absynthiata, it will 

 follow, I think, that coagidata must stand for some American form very 

 near to but distinct from that species. Guenee was familiar, of course, 

 with the true absynthiata, and could see the differences existing in the 

 American form, and he has pointed out some of them in his descriptions. 



It seems to me most probable that Guenee had before him a specimen 

 of the smaller of the two forms which Packard confused under the name 

 o{ gemifiata. This is that figured in the Monograph on Plate viii, fig. 2, 

 The only objection to this use of the name seems to be that this form 

 lacks the reddish tinge which coagulata is said to possess. There is, 

 however, in British Columbia a form which is quite red enough to satisfy 

 the description, and though it is not likely that Guenee's type, said to be 

 from Pennsylvania, could have been a western specimen, it is probable 

 that it was conspecific. I have used the name coagulata for the western 

 form, and I now use it also for the eastern, though not absolutely sure that 

 I am correct. It is just jjossible that still another form may be found in 



