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It is well described in the Peabody Report, but the description is 

 shortened a little in the Monograph, and the figure therein is not very 

 characteristic. The insect is apparently rare, and I have only a single 

 specimen (which I owe to the kindness of Mr. Swett), taken at Winchen- 

 don, Mass., June 20th. 



Strattonata cannot be mistaken for any other of our eastern species, 

 the unusual colour (brownish-ochreous, Packard calls it), the heavily- 

 marked costa, and the small but very distinct discal spots, readily 

 separating it from its allies. 



Why this species should ever have been placed on a synonym of 

 Eucymatoge anticaria I cannot imagine. It bears very little resemblance 

 to that species, and has the single accessory cell of Eupithecia, not the 

 double one of Eucymatoge 

 Eiip. fenestrata, Milliere, Rev. & Mag. Zool., 1874, p. 243, and Icon., iii, 



431. '53. 14, i5> 1874- 

 = Larentia cretaceata, Packard, 6th Rept. Peab. Acad. Sci., 40, 

 1874, and Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, PI. i, fig. 3, 1874. 

 = Eup. cretaceata, Packard, Monograph, 63, PI. viii, fig. 15, 1876. 

 = Glaucopteryx cretaceata, Packard, Monograph, 562, 1876. 

 There is a difficulty in recognizing this species, which, though 

 described from Sierra Nevada, is equally common on the Pacific Coast and 

 in the Atlantic States. There is no doubt, I think, that the cretaceata of 

 Packard is at best only a variety of the European E. feiiestrata, and in 

 Staudinger and Rebel's Catalogue (No. 3589) the two are placed together. 

 I do not understand why Packard should have printed his description 

 twice over in the Monograph (see pages 63 and 562). 



Last autumn, in company with Dr. Dyar, we discovered the laivse of 

 this species feeding in great numbers on the flowers and seeds, and later 

 on the leaves of Veratni7n viride (the False Hellebore). The larvge were 

 about one inch in length, of a yellowish-green colour, with eight interrupted 

 black lines, one dorsal, two lateral and one subspiracular on each side, and 

 one ventral. The head and legs shining black. These larvte were full 

 fed at the end of August, and the moths are now (4th of June) emerging. 

 Eup, albicapitata, Packard, Monograph 48, PI. viii, fig. i, 1876. 



This is one of the most distinct species we have in the genus, and the 

 description of Packard is very good, though the figure is hardly so satis- 

 factory. The moth is not very common or well known, and it is quite 

 usual to find some very different species under this name in collections. 

 Albicapitata flies in June, and it occurs on both the Atlantic and the 



