THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 425 



THE EUPITHECLE OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



No. 3. 



BY GEO. W. TAYLOR, NANAIMO, B. C. 



Since I began my paper on the Eupithecice of Eastern North America 

 (the completion of which has been delayed by my continued illness), much 

 attention has been given to the group by our students of Geometridee, 

 now quite numerous. 



In consequence of their studies and my own further investigations, I 

 have to amend some ofi the statements made in the earlier parts of this 

 paper. 



I have now good specimens of scriptaria, H.-Sch., gelidata, 

 Moeschler, and hyperboreata, Staudinger. They appear to me to be dis- 

 tinct species, and not any of them to be referred to E. nanata. 



Coagulata, Guenee, is the name I retained for the form represented 

 by the £ type of Packard's geminata (Monograph pi. VIII, fig. 2), and 

 Mr. Grossbeck (Ent. News, XVIII, p. 347), agrees with me as to this. 

 Mr. Pearsall, however, has redescribed the form as E. meritata (Ent. News, 

 XIX, p. 195). 



With regard to E. miserulata, Grote, several articles have lately been 

 written, and from them it appears that Messrs. Grossbeck, Pearsall and 

 Swett are all agreed to give the name to a part of Hulst's E. nebulosa. 



I had come to the conclusion that a quite different insect (since 

 named Swettii by Mr. Grossbeck) was the one from which at least a part 

 of Grote's description was drawn. I still feel quite confident that I am 

 right, but as I am also sure that the description being poor and probably 

 drawn up from several "types" not conspecific, and all the types being 

 lost, it will never be possible for my position or Mr. Grossbeck's to be 

 absolutely proved. No dependence can be placed on a supposed type 

 "entirely without label," nor can we rely on specimens named by Grote 

 for various collectors, as he admitted that all his eastern Eupitheciae stood 

 under the one name. I am therefore content that in this case the majority 

 shall rule, and henceforth I shall call the form indicated by Messrs. Gross- 

 beck and Pearsall ( = nebulosa, Hulst, pars, = Grossbeckiata, Swett), 

 miserulata, Grote, and the form I had identified as miserulata will stand 

 as Swettii, Grossbeck. 



E. luteata, Packard. — Never having seen Packard's types, I naturally 

 accepted Packard's own statement that luteata and palpata constituted but 



December, 1909 



