128 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In Dr. Fyles's concluding remarks on congrua, he says : 



(c) Dr. Hulst and others have bred it. 



(dj S. antigone has been found to be identical with it. 



These statements are too positive to be scientific. Dr. Hulst and 

 others have bred antigone, and it seems probable that that species is the 

 same as congrua, but that is all we can say at present. 



In the January number of the present year Dr. Dyar very briefly 

 points out Dr. Fyles's error, calling attention to the fact that of cunea the 

 abdomen is described as " concolori nigro-maculato," the English 

 description saying " back and abdomen ash colour." Drury's figure 

 shows a white abdomen, while the abdomen of Dr. Fyles's specimen is 

 yellow. Dr. Dyar pronounces this much-spotted Spilosoma to be prima, 

 Slosson, and Mr. BeutenmuUer thought last June that Mr. Winn's 

 specimen of the same species which I showed him was possibly that 

 species, but if so, either Mrs. Slosson's types must have been aberrant or 

 she laid too much stress on the "cream-colour, almost buff" tone of the 

 moth, as in these specimens the only yellowish tone is on the nervures. 



I entirely disagree with Dr. Fyles, as I can see no resemblance, 

 beyond the most superficial, between his specimen and Drury's figure, 

 while I have a specimen of H. punctatissima from New Jersey which is 

 practically identical with the figure of cunea. 



I am, as mentioned by Dr. Dyar, at work upon the question of the 

 relationship existing between punctatissima and textor, but am not in a 

 position to make any report as yet. 



Note. — Since writing the above, Dr. Fyles has published another 

 paper upon this matter in the March number of the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, and in this has made plain what had better have been pointed 

 out at first, that by cunea he merely referred to Drury's type and not to 

 the species which has since been known by that name, but he falls into 

 other errors. 



He is wrong in implying that Dr. Ottolengui doubted the identity of 

 cunea, Drury, and punctatissima, A. & S. 



What Dr. Ottolengui expressed a doubt about was whether textor, 

 Harris, and punctatissima, A. & S., were the same. 



Abbot's figures of punctatissima ^ and ^ are admirable. What 

 does Dr. Fyles mean by " an irregularly spotted insect ? " The figure 

 shows perfect bilateral symmetry. The figure of the larva is poor, but no 

 worse than hundreds of other figures which have been made of larvie. 



