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offer the following notes in the hope that those students who have 

 an opportunity to examine the type material may either \erify 

 or disprove our statements. 



Apantesis moierra Dyar. 



This is apparently quadrinotata Stkr., a name at present sunk 

 in the synonymy of placentia A.&S. Strecker's species, de.scribed 

 and figured in the Proc. Dav. Acad. N. Sciences, Vol. II, p. 271, 

 1878, from several 9 's from Texas agrees in locality with moierra 

 Dyar. Sociata B. & McD., described from a single 9 from New 

 Mexico (1910, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XVIII, 149), will probably 

 also prove to be a synonym. Until the cf 's are known, nothing 

 very definite can be said about the species, but we venture the 

 guess that they will proAC to have banded primaries and be inter- 

 mediate between j^gMm/a Dru. and placentia A. & S. . 



Schinia navarra Dyar. 



The description reads remarkably like that of ciipes Grt. and 

 the type localities are similar. If it were not for the fact that 

 cupes should be correctly identified in the National Museum, and 

 therefore known to Dr. Dyar, we should not hest'tate in making 

 the two names synonymous. In his tables Hampson has not been 

 very fortunate in his placing of cupes, and this may have misled 

 Dr. Dyar. 



Gonocausta sabinalis Dyar. 



This is doubtless the species referred to by us (Contrib. II, 

 224) to zephyralis Led. A series will be necessary to prove 

 whether the points of distinction mentioned by Dr. Dyar have 

 specific value or not. Our single specimen lacks the fringes, so is 

 of no value in this connection. 



Artopsis nua Dyar. 



We fear that the genus Artopsis Dyar must fall before Parachma 

 Wlk. Hampson (Proc. Lond. Zool. Soc, 1897, p. 659), it is true, 

 figures and defines the genus as having only 11 veins on the prim- 

 aries, at the same time making Perseis Rag. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 1890, p. 538) a synonym. This latter genus, founded on cidicidalis 

 Hist., is distinctly stated, however, to have twelve veins, and later 

 Ragonot himself, after an examination of the British Museum types 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1892, p. 624) sinks his genus to Parachma Wlk. 



