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Teras nivisellana, Wlsm. 

 " variana, Fernald. 



C "acacia rosana, Linn. 



CEtiectra pilleriana, Schiff. 



Exartema pundana, Wlsm. 



This attractive species I had been taking for a number of years at 

 Hamilton, one and two specimens in a season. It was moderately 

 plentiful in one locality at London during the early part of July, where 

 I secured about a dozen and a-half specimens of it. It is quite variable 

 in size and depth of shading. My specimens range from 15 to 25 mm. 

 in expanse of wing, the smallest males being, as a rule, the lightest in 

 colour. 



Sericoris bipartitaua, Clem. 



Pcedisca otiosana, Clem. 



Semasia signatana, Clem. 



Argyresthia andereggiella, F. V. R. 



Zaverua subbistrigella, Haw. 



Butalis it?ipositelIa, Zell. 



THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF VARINA ORNATA, NEUM.* 



BY A. S. PACKARD. 



For a specimen of this most interesting moth I am indebted to Mrs. 

 Slosson, and after an examination of it I am unable to find any Bombycine 

 characters, except the heavily pectinated antennas. In Prof. Smith's List 

 of Lepidoptera it is placed in the Liparidae between Artaxa and Lagoa, 

 though it bears no resemblance to these moths except in the shape of the 

 antennae. It has also been regarded as allied to the Cochliopodidae. 

 Prof. Smith has recently stated that it is a synonym of Acherdoa ferraria , 

 Walk. (See Can. Ent., xxiv, 135, 18Q2). It appears from its heavily 

 pectinated antennae to belong among the Noctuo-Bombyces, and all its 

 characters indicate its affinities with the Noctuina. On denuding the 

 head, the front is seen to be very full and convex, and those who claim 

 that the characters of the head are useless in distinguishing families, we 

 would refer to this case, as no Bombycine moth with which we are 



Papilio iv., 94, 1884. 



