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from any of the four closely-allied species. It is normal, front smooth, the 

 shape is most like nelita, though the latter is darker and less shining. The 

 difference between eiipatorii, necopina and nitela is obvious. Colour light 

 chestnut, shiny. The two divergent, hooked anal spurs are relatively 

 larger than its allies. Length, 17-18 mm. A very nice little Sesia is a 

 co-labourer in the Helianthus root, and emerges just a few days ahead of 

 its companion. An accident befell the one example carried through, so it 

 is not known what species was represented. 



(To be continued.) 



THE EUPITHECI^ OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



BY GEO. W. TAYLOR, WELLINGTON, B. C. 



(Continued from page 168.) 



We have now to consider nine names proposed by Dr. Packard 

 between 1867 and 1876, the date of his admirable Monograph. 



The first in order of time is : 

 Eiip. liiieata,, Packard, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.. XI, 46, 1867. 



Described from Labrador in the first place, but redescribed as Eup. 

 palpata six years later from specimens collected in Maine and New York. 



When Dr. Packard wrote the Monograph he placed palpata as a 

 synonym of luieata, and I suppose the better plan is to follow him in this 

 course. The description o{ hiteata, however, seems to point to at least a 

 distinct variety. The description given under the name luteata in the 

 Monograph, it should be noted, is almost word for word a copy of the 

 original description oi palpata, and not that oi luteata, as one might have 

 expected. Dr. Hulst many years later described Eupithecia oj'nata from 

 Colorado. This species is superficially somewhat like palpata, and Dr. 

 Hulst named for various collections specimens of palpata as ornata. I 

 have several specimens so misnamed by him in my own collection, and 

 misled by these specimens I am afraid I have given this name {ornata) 

 to many of my correspondents. Recently Mr. Swett has comj^ared speci- 

 mens for me with Packard's types, and he assures me that there can be no 

 doubt that I have now palpata, that is, luteata, correctly identified. 



The species seenis to be common all through the eastern States from 

 the middle of April to the end of May. 



Eup. geminata, Packard, 5th Report Beabody Acad. Sci,, 58, 1873. 



Packard described the species from two specimens apparently not 

 conspecific. The one, a male (figured in the Monograpli at Plate viii, fig. 



August, 1907 



