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Regarding the position, Dr. Dyar himself states in the introduc- 

 tion of his article on Afrida: "I think the genus very doubtfully 

 placed in the Lithosiidse; I should rather think it a noctuid." If an 

 authority like Dr. Dyar, whose knowledge of exotic Lithosiidae is 

 evidently profound, should be led to such a statement, then surely 

 we may be pardoned for having actually included Aresia in the 

 Noctuidse. We accept Dr. Dyar's reference of parva to ydatodes 

 Dyar; the specimens mentioned from Brownsville, Texas, in our 

 original description would fall under minuta Druce according to 

 Dr. Dyar's paper. 



Anomis serrata B. & McD. 



We bow before Dr. Dyar's decision and make serrata a 

 synonym of xanthindyma Bdv. We had based our supposition 

 that we were dealing with a new species on Dr. Dyar's recent 

 paper on Cotton Moths in the January number of his publication, 

 in which, under Cosmophila erosa, no mention is made of the two 

 forms of the cf antenna 1 ; we had, unfortunately, no means of con- 

 sulting the publications on exotic species. We are glad that Dr. 

 Dyar's opinion at least coincides with our own as to the specific 

 distinctness of the two forms. 



Psychidae 



Dr. Dyar's remarks under this head, and his reference of our 

 species nigrita and pygmcea as "grass" and "tree-trunk" forms of 

 Platoeceticus gloveri Pack., we are not at all prepared to accept. 

 In Europe, where the Psychidcs have for years been the subject of 

 special study, the larval cases are recognized as one of the best 

 means of specific identification. We would commend to Dr. 

 Dyar's perusal the introduction to the Psychichx by Dr. Rebel in 

 Spuler's "Schmetterlinge Europas," where, among other things, it 

 is stated "Der Sack ist sehr verschieden gestaltet, immer aber fur 

 die Art charakteristisch gebaul and bekleidet, so dass sie sich 

 schon an clem Sack meist erkennen laesst." The sacks of our two 

 species are as different from each other as they well could be; the 

 one (nigrita) is broader towards the opening and heavily thatched 

 'with minute particles of lichen ; neither bears much resemblance 

 to Packard's figure of the sack of gloveri, which we also found on; 

 orange trees in Florida, but which failed to produce the imago; 



