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He says, Ann. Mag., N. H., i88r, ser. 5, v. VIII., p. 310 :— "Why Dr. 

 Packard and others have placed this species m Epicallia, of which E. 

 villica is type, it would indeed be hard to say. Setting aside other differ- 

 ences, the utter dissimilarity of the male antennte should have been 

 sufficient to keep them widely separated. The pattern and colour of the 

 wings, the less woolly and smaller thorax, and the barred abdomen are 

 all characteristic oi Hypercompa ; in fact, with the exception of the rather 

 shorter costal margin of primaries, which may, perhaps, be regarded as a 

 generic character, I can see nothing to distinguish it from that genus." 

 Mr. Butler claims domimda and allies as Hypercompa ( Callivwi-pha 

 Stgr.), and says our species oi Hypercompa (Calli)norpha) differ generic- 

 ally from the European species, and should be referred to Haploa Hiib. 

 Villica, according to Butler the type of Epicallia, is placed in Arctia by 

 Staudinger. 



Without expressing any opinion on the subject, I refer the matter to 

 some one having the material for study. 

 E. virginalis Bdv. 



1852 — Bdv., Lep. Calif. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.), 49, Chelonia. 



1855— Wlk., C. B. Mus. Lep. Het., III., 611, Arctia. 



i860 — Clem., Proc. Ac. N. Sci., Phil., XII., 529, Arctia. 



1862 — Clem., App. to Morris Syn., 337, Arctia. 



1864 — Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., III., \oZ, Epicallia. 



1867 — Grt. & Rob., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, I., 333, pi. 6, f. 42, ^ , 



Epical Ha. 

 1873— Stretch,* Zyg. & Bomb., 70, 23S, pi. 3, ff. 2, 3, 4, and pi. 10, 



f. I (larva) Epicallia. 

 1874 — Pack.,* Rept. Geol. Surv., 1874, p. 559, Epicallia. 

 1S75 — Edw.,* Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., V., 186, Epicallia, 

 1876— Stretch, Rept. Surv. West. 100 Mer, V., 802, Epicallia. 

 1 88 1— Butler, Ann. Mag., N. H., Ser. 5, VIII., 310, Hypercompa. 



var. ochracea Butler. 

 1 881 — Butl, Ann. Mag., N. H., Ser. 5, VIII., 310, Hypercompa 



Cites Stretch, Zyg. &: Bomb, p. 71, pi. 3, f. 2, as type. 



var. guttata Bdv. 

 1852 — Bdv., Lep. Cal. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.), 48, Agarista. 

 1853— H. -Sell., Lep. Exot., 72, f 464, Pleretes. 

 1862 — Morris, Synopsis, 12,2, Alypia. 



