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allied that it is evident we have to do with one of the kind I have called 

 Progeiiera, of which Datana is so conspicuous an example. The moth 

 II. trico/or Grote, ex Pack., is, however, a true Hemileiica. The cha- 

 racters of this genus, the black antennae, the red body tufts, are retained in 

 this faded moth, which has been cited by Dr. Packard as owing its color 

 to its peculiar environment. The genus and species Argyraicges 

 Neumoegeiii Grote, ex Hy. Edwards, is closely allied, but here the 

 antennse are yellowish and comparative differences allow us to concede a 

 new generic type. The relationship is evidenced by the red tufts still, 

 but the pattern, not the color, has also undergone a modification. It is 

 quite clear that the genus EtileiuopJiceus has been misapplied by Henry 

 Edwards and Mr. Neumoegen. I have not seen the insects described 

 by these writers, but they must be referred to a different genus, since 

 Etileucophceus, with its type tricolor, has no standing. They may be 

 allied to Coloradia. 



The sub-family Ceratocampmce is first eliminated by Dr. Harris. It 

 appears to me to be exclusively North American, and even to be con- 

 fined to the wider region east of the Rocky Mountains, the Sierras and 

 Cordilleras and Andes of America, the rocky back bone of the whole 

 continent. Among our Attacinac, the two species of Saturnia are most 

 interesting, both because they belong to this European genus, and 

 because they illustrate what I have pointed out among the lower moths, 

 a certain affinity between the faunas of Texas and California, not 

 apparent in the Lepidoptera of the Middle States. 



SOME EUROPEAN BEETLES IN AMERICA. 



BY SAMUEL HENSHAW, BOSTON, MASS. 



On page 114 of the present volume of the Canadian Entomologist 

 Mr. A. R. Grote in his " Note on ^Mistaken Identifications," mentions 

 Dr. Harris's record of the capture of Carabus auratus Linn., in Mas- 

 sachusetts, and implies that Dr. Harris has made an erroneous, or 

 " curious," identification. This, however, is not the case, and it would 

 be impossible for so careful an observer as Dr. Harris to make a mistake 

 about a species so well known. 



The specimen referred to is preserved in the Harris collection, and, so 

 far as I know, is the only one on record captured in the United States. 



