280 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pacific coasts. I have not, however, received any specimens from the 

 l^rairie Provinces. Mr. T. Bryant took a nimiber of specimens near the 

 British Columbian and Alaskan boundary in 1905, and it also occurs at 

 Kaslo, in British Columbia. A specimen from the latter locality was 

 inadvertently recorded by Dr. Dyar (Proc. N. S. Nat. Mus , xxvii, 889) as 

 lagucearia, Herr-Sch., a species not entitled to a place on our American 

 list. I have not seen many specimens from the eastern States, and Mr. 

 Swett tells me that the species is not common, but is subject to consider- 

 able variation. 

 Eup. zygadeniata, Packard, Monograph, 51, PI. ix, fig. 7, 1876. 



This species was admirably described and equally well figured 

 in the Monograph. The types were from Texas, and I have not seen 

 specimens from any other State. Once seen, it cannot afterwards be 

 mistaken for any other species. Nevertheless, it has usually been mis- 

 named in collections. Dr. Hulst does not appear to have recognized it, 

 for I have seen several specimens of other species (none of them really 

 zygadeniata) sent out by him with this name on the label. As a result of 

 these misidentifications the name, zygadeniata. has appeared on several 

 local lists, but I should mistrust any record from localities other than 

 Texas. My own specimens (all dated May, 1902) are from the type 

 locality, and agree exactly with the original diagnosis. Judging from the 

 description and locality, I should say that the " Tephroclystis tenebrescens' 

 of Hulst (Can. Ent., XXXII, 102) is a synonym of this species. 



The spelling of the name seems to be a stumbling-block to the list- 

 makers. It is spelt incorrectly in Hulst's " Classification " and in Dyar's 

 and Smith's latest lists, and in each of these instances we are favoured 

 with a different variation. 

 Eup. ravocostaliata, Packard, Monograph 60, PI. viii, fig. 9. 



Described from the Pacific Coast, and so well known and easily 

 recognized from description and figure that a mistake with regard to it 

 would be almost impossible. The species is not, I think, quite as common 

 in the east as in the west, but it is found in more or less abundance in 

 every locality from which I have seen collections. 



Of Packard's nine species noted above, six will continue to bear his 

 names. One ( palpata) is sunk in deference to Packard's own opinion ; 

 one (geminata), which had been placed in synonymy by Packard, is 

 restored under a new name ( Packardata); and one ( cretaceata) is dropped 

 as being but a slight variety of a previously-described European species. 



(To be continued.) 



