232 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In venation I can find no notable differences from HaUsidota, and the 

 only examined species, longa, alone considered, I cannot find a7iy 

 difference save in the wing form. In Eiihalisidota the primaries are 

 longer and more pointed. Mr. Grote, in describing the genus 

 originally, had only a single rubbed female before him, and pointed out 

 some distinctive characters which seem inconstant. 

 E. longa Grt. 



1880 — Grt., Can. Ent., XII., 213, Euhalisidota. 

 Habitat — Florida. 

 E. piira Neum. 



1882 — Neum., Papilio, II., 133, Euhalisidota. 

 Habitat — Arizona. 



Genus Alexicles, Grt. 



1882 — Grt., Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci., VIIL, 46. 



Eyes hairy, head produced ; the thick clypeal vestiture conceals the 

 small palpi; abdomen short, male antennae pectinated; wings rather 

 long and narrow, entire, sub-diaphanous. Cell in primaries closed, veins 

 3-5 arising near together. 



The above genus is unknown to me, and the characters given are 

 from Mr. Grote's description, and all that he gives. He says, " In plac- 

 ing it among the Arctia?is I have probably not found its best place." No 

 family characters are given, so it is impossible to guess where the genus 

 belongs. The neurational characters given are as much noctuid as 

 arctiid, while the origin of vein 8 of secondaries, which would have 

 probably decided the propriety of its reference to the Arctians, is not 

 mentioned at all. In fact, except by the identification of the species, the 

 genus is not recognizable. The species is A. aspersa Grt. 

 1882 — Grt., Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci., VIIL, 46., Alexicles. 

 Habitat — New Mexico. 



I have now gone over all my notes in the family. The bibliography 

 is probably not complete, but it embraces references to the descriptions 

 of all the species and nearly all the genera. By far the greater number 

 of references are original, and nearly all have been verified. The notes 

 on the structural characters have gradually accumulated, as I rarely lost 

 an opportunity of making an examination of a species coming into my 

 hands, nor of noting the contents of books which I found occasion to 

 examine in my studies on the noctuidce. In arranging the Arctiidce of 



