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rest of antenna' beyond blackish, but paler towards tips; pronotum 

 with a broad lateral black stripe, almost connected across the fur- 

 row; thorax with a broad black stripe over base of wings, anterior 

 edge of mesothorax black; abdomen with a blackish stripe each 

 side above, nearly connected at the tips of the segments; pleura 

 with two black spots; legs pale, tibiae I and II with a dark mark 

 on outer base. Wings with almost wholly dark brown venation, 

 the subcosta pale, and parts of median, the cubitus and anals at 

 base also pale; hind wings with mostly pale venation, the costals, 

 veins ending in hind margin, and base of radial cross- veins black; 

 stigma narrow, yellow-brown, not distinct. Pronotum a little 

 longer than broad, slightly narrowed in front; wings moderately 

 broad, rounded at tips, the divisory veinlet ends in end-vein ot 

 cell, but near its upper end, so that the divisory cell is much broader 

 at base than at tip, six gradates in each series, each gradate widely 

 separated from the next, the inner series much nearer to radial 

 sector than to outer row; the outer marginal forks mostly three 

 times as long as broad; costal area quite broad; in hind wings five 

 or six inner gradates and six outer ones. Expanse 27 mm. 

 From Rio Longo, Bolivia, 750 m. (Fassl). 



ON THE SYNONYMY OF CERTAIN FLORIDA 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY WM. BARNES, M.D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, PH.D., DECATUR, ILL. 



In the August number of Insecutor Inscitia^ Menstruus, Dr. 

 Dyar has justified the title of his publication and subjected a recent 

 papers of ours on "Some Apparently New Florida Species."* to a 

 grilling calculated to prevent less enthusiastic entomologists than 

 ourselves from ever again obtruding themselves on the notice of 

 the long-suffering entomological public. 



It is not the purpose of this article to justify the causes that 

 led to the article in question; this, if necessary, can be left to other 

 competent individuals; we would merely in the following notes 

 give our own views on the points of synonymy as laid down by Dr. 

 Dyar, for we fear that in several instances his desire to swell the 

 list of synonyms has led him to be a little hasty in his judgment. 



♦Contributions, Vol. II, part 4, 1913. 

 January, 1914 



