100 THE CANA1>IAN ENT«»MOL(K»IHT. 



Xylina cinerosa Grt. ) I^rge, gray sprinkled ; orbicular whitish, con- 

 Grotti Riley \ trasiing. No brown in reniform. 



laticinerea Grt. ) Smaller, duller, orbicular scarcely contrasting, 

 /r///////r;; Smith j usually wiih brown in reniform. 



antennata. Walk. ) ,». , x 



u 1 »■ (No change.) 



liner en Riley \ ^ " ' 



The characttis given for the first two species were designated by 

 Grote himself. Holland's figure of iaticinerea happens to be correct, 

 but in Prof. Smith's monograph, IM. v, figs. 29 and 30, the names are 

 reversed 



A species standing wrongly under Winnipf^ in collections, and often 

 mixed with the true species, is the Manitoba form of animada, which is 

 rather more stron{.'ly marked than tyj)ical. 



X. hemina Grt. — This name has long been applied to <fis/>osita, from 

 which it has been thought questionably distinct. Nearly all the specimens 

 I have seen standing in collections as hemina, I believe to be disposita. 

 At any rate, none have been /lemitia, the two being really (}uite luilike, as 

 my notes on, and Hampson's figure of the type of hemina show. Though 

 I have known disponta for long, until I saw the type in the British 

 Museum about a year ago, I had never seen hemina. My notes on the 

 type tell me that it is a strigate species, and " so unlike dispoiita that 

 comparison is superfluous." The type comes from Lewis Co., N. V., and 

 it appears to be a very rare species. Though I have seen several of the 

 jirincipal collections, I have not yet identified this with certainty in any of 

 them. Grote in his description says that it is longer winged than dnposita, 

 with " spots and lines less distinctly limited, and more as in petulca'' He 

 adds that it has a peculiar general resemblance in ornamentation and 

 colour to //adena vulgaris. The type, a male, came from the Hill 

 collection, which contained other specimens. ^Vhere that collection now 

 is, I have not heard. Smith's Monograph, PI. iii, fig. 2, called '' hemiiia, 

 melanic form," I rather suspect of being a pale oriunda. Fig. 4 I should 

 call about \\ox\w7^\ petulca^ and the same as fig. 13, called rignosa, a namr 

 of which I cannot at present arrive at the true status. 



Tceniocanipa Gn. {i\fonima Hbn.; Hamps. Cat.) 



It will come, I fear, as a shock to many, to learn that both the names 

 alia Gn., and /Jci^irj Harv., are everywhere wrongly used. The type of 

 TaniQcampa itlia Gn , is a good specimen, a female, in the British 



