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!eco7itei. The specific character of markings is found in the form of the 

 broad half band of the primaries that arises from the internal margin, and 

 sends off from its summit a band to the outer margin below the apex, and 

 a spur inwardly. In my paper I figure some varieties with the markings 

 much more nearly obsolete. Mr. Lintner's description of the larva of C. 

 lecontei (Ent. Contr., iii., 143) refers to this form. I have seen the 

 imagos. Mr. Lintner found it on Spear-mint, Mejitha viridis. 



I have found the species common in the Catskills, where all the speci- 

 mens taken were of this species. At first, as above suggested, I was 

 inchned to consider this a distinct species, and oddly enough selected the 

 same name for it that Mr. Lyman did. My reasons for changing my 

 opinion have been already given. 



C. suFFUSA Smith. 



This is the species figured by Mr. Stretch in his Zygaenid?e and Bom- 

 bycidae as typical of lecontei, and he credits Mr. Saunders with the 

 specimens. This is my authority for the locality, Canada, for this species, 

 and also my authority for referring Mr. Saunders's description of the larva 

 in Can. Ent., i., 20, to this species, though somewhat doubtfully. 



Unaware of the existence of forms like the true leco?itei, I also 

 assumed from these facts that Mr. Caulfield referred to this form as 

 lecojitei ; he assumed the distinctness of lecontei and militarise which 

 proves unfounded, and which also misled me. I am sorry my name does 

 not please Mr. Lyman. The matter is not so bad as it might be, how- 

 ever, since, as I shall show hereafter, the name clymcne is misapplied and 

 must be credited to a different species. The species varies quite exten- 

 sively, and I have figured a number of the forms. One specimen is nearly 

 immaculate, having only the margins dusky. 



C. FULvicosTA Clem. 



Mr. Lyman should have cited as a ^synonym Tanada conscita Wlk., in 

 part. He cites it for the % only. 



C. vESTALis Pack. 



Mr. Lyman cites this as a synonym of /ulvicosta, in my opinion quite 

 erroneously. Query — Whether Mr. Lyman really knows vcstalis ? It is 

 smaller, whiter, without any creamy tinge, and appears more frail and 

 Euchaetes like. I feel as confident of its distinctness as of any others of 

 the species. To this I cite Tanada conscita Wlk., as I believe Mr. 



