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species described as Odontota Walshii Q\oic\\, Pr. Ac. Phil., 1873, 81, and 

 the species should therefore be called Odontota coUai is (Say). 



Imatidium ly-pimctatiun Say, /. c. 435, is not a synonym of Chely- 

 niorpJia cribraria Fabr., as stated by LeConte, Say's Writings, ii , 207, but 

 is the species subsequently described by Crotch, /. c. 77, as C/i. Lewisii, 

 which will therefore have to be considered a synonym. 



Graptodera plicipefinis Mannh. = Haltica himarginata Say ; the de- 

 scription of Say has priority. 



Leptxira sphaericolUs Say, Jour. Ac. Phil, v., 280 = ruficoUis Say, /. c. 

 iii., 421. Dr. LeConte has already noted, New Series Am. Col., pt. ii., 

 222, that the species are identical, but not that riificQllis has priorit}^ 



ON SPECIES OF MELIPOTIS. 



I;Y LEON F. HARVEY, M. D., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



I propose to designate by the varietal name versahilis, that form of 

 juciiiida in which the primaries are nearly unicolorously fuscous gray 

 without the white shading on tlie median space, and without the con- 

 trasting black and white of the usual and typical form. Specimens of this 

 are in the collection of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, collected 

 by Mr. Grote in .Alabama. Where the t. p. line is at all discernible, it is 

 seen to make the same sharp indentation below the median vein as in the 

 type. The species described by me from Texas under the name agroti- 

 pennis may be distinguished by the t. p. line not running in so far at this 

 point and making an obtuse instead of a pointed angle on vein 2. 



Melipotis sin^ialis, >i. s. 



$ . Belongs to the group of jucunda, but is larger, with the fore wings 

 more pointed. Whitish gray ; fore wings crossed by interrupted lines. 

 T. p. line well toward the outer edge, partially obliterate and forming a 

 distinct black sinuate streak from vein 3 (where it approximates to the 

 margin) to vein i inwardly, A terminal waved line. Discal mark 

 obliterate,'faint]y yellowish. Hind wings inire glistening white, with a 

 deep black border discontinued below vein 2. A black dot on the 



