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under the name, but the figure is more highly colored than any specimens 

 I have seen. 



Pangrapta decoralts, 18, fig. 91-92. 



" Georgia." I have identified this species with the Hypena elegantalis 

 of Fitch., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iv., 92. Southern specimens are darker, 

 smaller, and more intensely colored. Collected by Mr. Schwarz at Enter- 

 prise, Florida. 



Phaeocyma lunifcra, 19, fig. 97-98. 



"Georgia." Figured also by Guenee', 15, fig. 9. My identification of 

 this species is as yet provisional, nor can I distinguish the genus from 

 Homoptera. 



Triaena tritona, 21, fig. 107-108. 



" New Georgia." I have identified this species in the New York 

 collections. 



Paectes pygmaea, 21, fig. 109-110. 



"Georgia." Hiibner compares this species with urticae ; but I think 

 it is a species of Ingiira, allied to praepilata. I never saw a pracpilata 

 so marked and colored, and have not identified Hiibner's species. 



Ptichodis bistrigata, 21, fig. 1 1 1-1 1 2. 



" New Georgia." Referred by Guen., 3, 303, to Poaphila, while Hiib- 

 ner considers it a Geometer. I have not yet met this species, which 

 should be easily recognized from its simple markings. 



Hemeroplanis pytalis, 23, fig. 127-128. 



" Georgia." I took this species in Alabama and identified it Trans. 

 Am. Ent. Soc, iv., 23. It is the type of Pleonertyptera, Hiibner's generic 

 term being used in the Sphingidae. Four species are represented in my 

 collection, all from the Southern States. 



Anticarsia gemmatilis, 26, fig. 153-154. 



" Surinam."  I have identified this with a common species taken in 

 Texas by Belfrage and in Wisconsin by Westcott. The figures are smaller 

 than my specimens. 



I have previously (Can. Ent., xi., 179) described varieties of this 

 species from Texas and Wisconsin. I wish to add here that this variation 

 takes place only on the upper surface of the wings. Even in their brown 

 ground color the under surfaces are always nearly the same ; the common 

 outer line of pale points is always obvious. This illustrates my obser- 

 vations on the method of variation in the Noctuidae (Pop. Sci. Monthly, 



