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C. obliquata B. & McD. 



Dr. Dyar is correct in making 'this a synonym of laguncularice 

 Dyar. We overlooked the branching of vein 8 close to the apex of 

 the wing in our examination of the single type specimen. 



Acidaliodes eoides B. & McD. 



'I his is not Pseudcraspedia basipunctaria Wlk. As stated in 

 on' article, the venation is that of Acidaliodes; i.e., vein 7 is free 

 and veins 8, 9, 10 and 11 of primaries are stalked, and not 7, 8, 9, 

 1!) stalked with 11 free as in Pseudcraspedia. We have four speci- 

 mens from Stemper, Fla., which agree in venation with Hamp- 

 son's definition, and may be either basipunctaria Wlk. or penum- 

 Irati Hist., neither of which species we know. There is great 

 superficial likeness between our species and the Stemper specimens, 

 and we are not surprised that Dr. Dyar should have failed to 

 recognize the points of difference especially as Mr. Grossbeck, to 

 the best ot our knowledge, had captured no specimens of eoides. 



Aresia parva B. & McD. 



Having no knowledge of exotic Lithosiidce, as Dr. Dyar has 

 been kind enough to state, we naturally fell back on Hampson's 

 "Keys" published in the Cat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus. and arrived 

 at the conclusion, rightly or wrongly as the case may be, that we 

 were dealing with a Noctuid; finding in Hampson's work, the I'atest 

 on the subject, no genus suitable for the occasion, we were rash 

 enough, in our wild haste for publicity, to create the genus Aresia, 

 which Dr. Dyar promptly makes a synonym of Afrida Moesch. 

 We regret that the original generic definition is not before us, but 

 if Hampson be correct, we would point out that, in Aresia, vein 5 of 

 secondaries is lacking, a mere fold occurring in its place and 8 is 

 only joined to cell at base of wing; whereas in Hampson's venation 

 figure vein 8 is from middle of cell and 5 is present. Dr. Dyar, in 

 his paper on the genus Afrida, calls attention to the fact that in 

 his specimens 8 is only joined to cell at base, but makes no mention 

 ot vein 5. He neither gives any generic characterization, nor did 

 he have any specimens of the generic type before him. It remains 

 therefore to be proven by examination of specimens of the generic 

 type, tortriciformis Moesch, whether these two genera are synonyms. 



