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Packard, in his " Synopsis of the Bombycidae of the United States, 1864", 

 does not mention any of the forms of Leptarctia, hence we may presume 

 that he had not seen any of them. In the note already referred to, at the 

 close of the vokmie, Stretch restores Californice, and gives Lena as a 

 synonym. Grote, in his "New Check List of North American Moths, 

 1882", gives three names as species, Decia, Lena and Dimidiata, giving 

 Calif ornue as a synonym of Lena. The Brooklyn List, 1881, gives the 

 same three names without Caiifortiice. 



This is, *as far as I have observed, a synopsis of the history of the 

 forms that have been placed under the genus Leptarctia as specie?. 

 Stretch figured several forms, but grouped them as varieties under the 

 three species he gave. While, for lack of a large series, or the knowledge 

 that could come from breeding, these writers have treated of these forms 

 as species, yet there has been something of a feeling among Lepidopterists 

 for several years that there was really only one species, and all the differ- 

 ent forms but varieties, and that such would ultimately be proven. 



(To be continued.) 



PRELLMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIID^ OF TEM- 

 PERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES. 



BY JOHN B, SMITH, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 

 ( Continued from page 300.) 



As the descriptions are short and so generally unknown, I will repro- 

 duce them here:— 



" Van hybrida : Primaries of D. bella, but the yellow belts indistinct, 

 secondaries of typical D. ornati'ix, but with the ground colour red as in 

 D. bella, and with a white edged, interrupted black belt across the dis- 

 coidal cell. 



" Hab.— United States. 



" Var. intermedia : Primaries with the yellow belts very pale, so that 

 the white borders of the black spots show faintly ; secondaries exactly 

 like speciosa. 



" Hab.— United States." 



