THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 31 



PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIID^. OF TEM- 

 PERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



(Contimied from page 14, Volume xxii.) 

 A. dor is Bdv. 



1869 — Bdv., Lep. Cal. (Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg.), 77, Chelotiia. 



Habitat — So. California. 

 I am not aware that any reference of this species to the rank of 

 synonyms has been made. It refers almost certainly to one of our 

 western species now known under another name. Mr. Grote has 

 omitted the species from his list. 

 A. edwardsii Stretch. 



1873— Stretch, Zyg. and Bomb., 74, 77, pi. III., f 9, Arctia. 



1883 — Neum., Papilio, HI., 149, —achaia ? 



1887— Smith, Ent. Amer., III., in, =dahurica. 



Habitat — California. 



A. excelsa Neum. 



1883 — Neum., Papilio, III., 70, Arctia. 



1883— Hulst.,* Bull., Bkln. Ent. Soc, VI., 69, =nais. 



Habitat — No. Car., New York, Long Island. 



Food plant — Plantago major. 

 A. elojigata Stretch. 



1885 — Stretch, Ent. Amer., I., 105, Arctia. 



1885 — Neum., Ent. Amer., L, 93, =var. determinata. 



Habitat — Was. Terr. 

 The curious anomaly of a species being referred as a synonym before 

 it was described arose from the fact that Mr. Stretch, basing his species 

 upon Mr. Neumoegen's material, returned the specimens before sending 

 in the papers for publication. Mr. Neumoegen, working on the genus, 

 made the reference from the label, and both gentlemen sent in their papers 

 for publication at nearly the same time. 

 A. figiirata Drury. 



1770 — Dru., lUustr., II., pi. XII., f. 4, Bombyx. 



1820 — Pal., Beauv., Ins. Afr. et. Am., Lep., p. 265, pi. 24, f. 4, J, 

 Fhaicena. 



