412 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SYNELIS ENUCLEATA, GUEN. : A CORRECTION. 



BY LOUIS B. PROUT, LONDON, ENGLAND. 



My attention has been called to Mr. Swett's interesting article on this 

 variable species (Can. Ent., XXXIX, p. 141). With most of his conclu- 

 sions I am in entire agreement ; indeed, it was I who first called Mr. 

 Taylor's attention to the fact that the name alabastraria (not 

 " alabastaria "), Hi.ibner, did not belong here at all. There has, 

 unfortunately, been a misidentification of Guenee's type form, which 

 necessitates a further revision. I cannot quite understand what gave Mr. 

 Swett the impression that that author's description referred to the form 

 with dark blotches on both wings, and as to the supposed " type " in M. 

 Oberthiir's collection, I may point out that Guenee described from " Six 

 exempl. Coll. Mus. et Gn.," and was acquainted with all the three principal 

 forms. But he describes as typical the form with the transverse lines 

 only ("borde'es de points noirs un pen oblongs" of course refers to the 

 marginal spots), and distinctly includes in var. A. both the others — 

 '• tantot deux taches a I'angle interne des suptirieures seulement, tantot 

 une double serie d'ombres separees par une subterminale claire, niais ne 

 montant jamais au-dessus de la I'aux superieures." As Mr. Swett says, 

 he figures the intermediate form (var. relevata,'S)Vft{.\.). The extreme form, 

 tlierefore [alabastaria, Hulst, not Hiibner, enuclcata forma typica, Pack., 

 et Swett, non Guen.), has never received a name, and as it seems to be 

 considered worthy of having one, I propose to call it var. adornaia, no v. 

 I may add that the form niensurata, Walk., is not strictly typical, being of 

 a purer white ground colour than the type ; and those who wish to name 

 every phase of aberration may add this to the list of separable ones. 



Summarized, the synonymical results are : 



Synelis e?iucieata, Guen., = resiriciata, Walk., et Swett, = recondi- 

 taria, Walk, (fide Grote) = continuaria, Walk, (dirly yellowish-white, no 

 blotches), 



A. var. (" ab " in European nomenclature) mensurata, Walk, (purer 

 white, no blotches). 



B. var. (ab.) relevata, Swett, = var. k. Guen., pars = Guen., pi. xii, 

 fig. 3 (blotches on fore wings only). 



C. var. (ab.) adornata mihi, var. nov. = var. A. Guen., pars — 

 alabastaria, Hulst non Hubner (blotches on all the wings). 



