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should be called Uniformis G. «S: R., without any reasonable doubt. I 

 will not enter here into the question of the even banded forms, Buffalo- 

 ensis and Floridensis. The larva of the former is described by Professor 

 Lintner. The latter has not been examined in sufficient quantity. I think 

 now that both these forms are distinct, certainly sufficiently so as to merit 

 a distinct title, if not of specific value. Fuscicaudis, Boisd., is, from the 

 markings of the abdomen, certainly a distinct species. After myself ex- 

 amining specimens I can come to no other conclusion. 



Quite similar arguments show that we are justified in calling the 

 smaller of the two forms of Arctia, which have buff striped, black fore 

 wings, and red, spotted secondaries, by the name Saundersii. I carefully 

 considered Kirby's description of Partheiiice after my discovery that two 

 species were passing as Arctia virgo in collections. The character which 

 separates the two is the narrower ochre veining of Saundersii. Again as 

 with the Hemaris, Kirby fails to compare his species with Virgo Linn., 

 which it was his business to know had he intended to describe as closely 

 allied a species as Saundersii is. I pass by the probably correct surmise 

 of Mr. Hy. Edwards that Kirby describes an unimportant variety of 

 Virgo, assuming this author to be correct. But be this as it may, I am 

 the first to scientifically separate the forms, to carefully describe them, to 

 figure them side by side (at my own expense, which was a good deal in 

 those days), to give the essential characters by which they may be known 

 and named henceforth. This being so, it is inconsiderate, and, scientifi- 

 cally speaking, an erroneous view which would overturn this real work 

 and restore a name which can never be proved to be correctly applied. 

 Always there must be a doubt hanging over the name Parthenice, from 

 Kirby's own fault in ignoring Virgo. But there is no doubt about Virgo 

 or Saundersii. I cleared those doubts up years ago, and Mr. Hulst 

 should have profited by my work rather than attempt to re-introduce the 

 uncertainty which I had, I think properly, dissipated. 



ELAPHIDION VILLOSUM, Fabr. 



BY FREDERICK CLARKSON, NEW YORK. 



In support of the record relating to the periods of transformation of 

 this beetle, and the probable cause of their pruning the branches of the 

 Oak, which I had the pleasure to contribute to the XVII Vol. of this 



