240 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



(Dr. Hulst's and Dr. Strecker's), being unfigured and insufficiently 

 described, are very difficult to identify. It will be some time yet, I fear, 

 before anyone will be in a position to attempt a complete monograph, and 

 probably it will be better to take up the work genus. by genus, as Dr. 

 Pearsall is doing. 



With regard to the- new genus Nomenia, I hai^e carefully examined 

 all the specimens in my collection from California, Nevada and British 

 Columbia, which, according to the nomenclature of Dr. Dyar's Catalogue, 

 would stand under the name Vennsia dnodecimlineata, Packard, but I 

 cannot find among tlicm any that possess the antennal structure described 

 by Dr. Pearsall. 



This does not, of course, prove that the genus Nonienia is not a good 

 one, but it shows that not all the California so-called 12-lineata belong to 

 it, and so until Dr. Packard's original types (from California) can be 

 examined it will be doubtful whether the name 12-lincata should be 

 attached to the JVomenia or to the ordinary form. The genus Vemesia as 

 Dr. Pearsall points cut, is represented in North America by a single species, 

 V. cambrica, Curtis. The other species listed by Hulst under VemisiaSorm 

 with Eiichceca Iticaia, Guene'e, a distinct and natural group. But I am 

 afraid we have not yet got these quite correctly named in our lists. 



My good friend Mr. L. B. Prout, of London, is very carefully going 

 over, on my behalf, Walker's type specimens in the British Museum; and 

 he tells me that the type of Teplirosia ? coinptaria. Walker, (from Nova 

 Scotia), is certainly not a specimen of L. perlineqta, Packard, as Hulst 

 supposed, but a 12-lijieata, Packard — eastern form. 



I think, therefore, that the name EncJmca comptaria, Walker, must 

 be used for the eastern, British Columbia and the bulk of the California 

 specimens of 12-linea/a, Packard. The species now called Comptaria 

 will retake its former name E. perlineata, Packard, and Euchceca lucata^ 

 Guene'e, with condensata^ Walker, as a synonym, will complete the group. 

 I would therefore list the species referred to as follows : 

 Venusia cambrica, Curtis. 

 Nomenia 1 2-lineata ?^, Packard. 

 Eucficeca comptaria, Walker. 



= i2-lmeata, Packard (part). 

 = salienta, Pearsall. 

 Euchoeca perlineata, Packard. 

 Euchceca lucata. (iuence. 



= condensata, Walker. 

 I may add that the type oi i/ulinataria, Walker, ( = inclinata Hulst), 

 j)laced by Hulst in the synonymy of comptaria, is a specimen of 

 Xa?ithor/ioe ferrugata. 



