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He identifies our Phila77ipclus pa7idorus with the species satcllitia, which 

 seems to be South American, and not to occur within the limits of the 

 United States, or, as we write. North America. Equally in the smaller 

 moths he wrongly identifies his (Parorgyia) achatina, which is not 

 Abbot's species, but our northern Clintonii. In the Noctuidce his identi- 

 fication of his Apatela americana with either of the forms figured by 

 Abbot is, at least, probably premature. Abbot's drawings, which I have 

 studied as closely as possible, make it probable that there arc two 

 Southern species of Parorgyia, leticophcea and achatina, not found in the 

 North, and I believe I have correctly identified the former in two female 

 specimens, one of which I found in Alabama. 



While writing, I am reminded of another curious identification of Dr. 

 Harris's in the Coleoptera. He says, House Report, April, 1838, p. 72 : 

 *' In France, a large insect, called vinaigrier (^Carabus atiratus L.), de- 

 vours the female Alelolontha vulgaris at the moment when she is about 

 to deposit her eggs. I have taken one specimen of this fine Caralnis in 

 Massachusetts." No other author I have seen refers to this identification 

 of an American species with the European C. aicratus. 



Abbot's work must be studied in connection with Southern collections, 

 and his observations be verified in all stages, before we can be quite sure 

 in all instances that we have his species before us. That he sometimes 

 " mixes " his species is, I have thought, proved by his plate of Catocala 

 amasia., where he gives us different species for sexes of the same ; and 

 this may not be the only instance. Among Abbot's smaller moths, I have 

 at least identified correctly his (Adita) chionanthi, a Noctuid sparingly 

 found in New York State, but which is so plainly marked that the identi- 

 fication can be relied upon. 



Leaving Dr. Harris and coming to Guenee, there is no doubt now 

 (after freshly comparing Southern specimens) that this eminent writer 

 wrongly identified our Northern species Catocala communis Grote, with 

 Abbot's neoga7iia. The typical form of coniiminis as it occurs with us has 

 the primaries of an obscure smooth olivaceous gray with distinctly brown 

 markings ; the hind wings dusty ochrey or brownish yellow. C. ncogama 

 has the fore wings black shaded over paler, purer gray with bright yellow 

 secondaries. While the two are of a similar size, there seem also certain 

 differences in the band of the hind wings. As I originally pointed out. 

 Guenee also mistakes Abbot's vidua. It seems to me probable, however, 

 that the vidua of Guenee, or viduata, which I have called Catocala 



