70 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tiny Red Ants are frequently great nuisances about dwellings. 

 They have " the faculty of getting into articles of food, particularly sugars, 

 syrups, and other sweets " As they nest in the walls or beneath the 

 flooring, it is sometimes difficult to eradicate them, but even inaccessible 

 nests may be reached by the injection of carbon bisulphide. Sponges 

 saturated with a sugar solution will attract ants by the dozens, and have 

 been used successfully as traps. When full of ants the sponges are 

 dropped into boiling water, and then replaced, and this done until the 

 colony is exterminated. 



ANOTHER GEOMETRID TANGLE. 



BY RICHARD F. PEARSALL, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



In a paper written not long since (Can. Ent., Vol. XXXVI I. , p. 344) 

 I stated that in examining the type of Dr. Hulst's genus Taliedega 

 {Lobophora montanata, Pack.) the male was possessed of characters which 

 would place it in the genus Lobophora, Curtis, and that in consequence 

 the genus Taliedega would fall. I did not know then that two species, 

 belonging to different genera, were passing under the name of montanata, 

 Pack., but such is the fact. Montanata was described by Dr. Packard 

 in 1874 from specimens taken in Colorado, and he gives an excellent plate 

 with his redescription of it in Mono. Geom., 1876, pi. g, fig. 21. With 

 these he mingled specimens from Amherst, Mass., Quebec and Montreal, 

 Can., to which he refers at the close of his description thus : " The 

 specimens from Quebec, and Amherst, Mass., differ from the Coloradean 

 examples in being whiter, with less of a flesh-coloured tint, and with the 

 lines less distinct on the hind wings." Now, this Eastern form, as he 

 considered it, I take quite frequently in the Catskill Mts., and an exam- 

 ination of it led me to believe Dr. Hulst was in error when he defined the 

 genus Taliedega. This is not the case. Taliedega stands with the true 

 7noJttanata, Pack., as its type, and the associated Eastern species goes into 

 the genus Lobophora, Curtis. What species is it ? 1 believe it to be the 

 inequaliata of Packard, described and figured also (Mono. Geom., 1876, 

 p. 180, pi. 9, fig. 20) from a single female, taken by Mr. H. K. Morrison 

 on Long Island, and from that locality I also have one ^ specimen. The 

 plate is an excellent one of this form, but the type is lost so far as I can 

 discover. It is not in the Packard coll. at Cambridge — but Dr. Hulst 

 has decided that inequaliata, Pack., is synonymous with nivigerata, 

 Walk., which, if correct, would make this species the nivigerata, WaXk., 

 and NOT the small species from California, one-third less in size and not 



March, iqo6. 



