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Heierocampa Belfragei, n. s. 



This species is less distinctly marked than usual, of moderate size. 

 The tone of the fore wings is olive gray with a narrow curved brown dis- 

 cal mark, and the broken subterminal line is composed of brown spots, 

 indented on interspace between veins 4 and 5, and preceded by a diffuse 

 whitish shade superiorly. A short narrow curved black basal streak. 

 Median lines double, interspaceally lunulate, indistinct. Hind wings pale, 

 more or less markedly dusky on costa and external margin, crossed by 

 incomplete double extra-mesial shade lines. Thorax like fore wings ; the 

 tuft, behind blackish, and the tegulae edged incompletely with black. 

 Beneath pale, without markings, except a dark common shade line near 

 the margin of the wings, which is not always noticeable. March 23 ; 

 April 15, 17, 21. Average expanse $Q> mil. Clifton, Bosque Co., Texas. 



Nemeophila caespitis. 



In our original paper on this species, which we figured together with 

 N. cichorii, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, plate 6, we stated that the 

 material illustrated in that paper, collected in California by M. Lorquin, 

 was communicated to us by Dr. Boisduval, and that we adopted the 

 specific names with which the specimens were labelled by Dr. Boisduval 

 (1. c. p. 3). In the Annales de la Societe' Ent. Belg., 1868-9, P- 75> Dr. 

 Boisduval states that he gave us these species to illustrate and describes 

 them himself as distinct from the European plantaginis, under these same 

 names. It seemed to us that there must be sufficient characters to induce 

 their separation, since an Entomologist so well acquainted with the Euro- 

 pean fauna as Dr. Boisduval, considered them to differ. Possibly they 

 are only varieties of the European form, but seemingly well marked. Our 

 responsibility is however limited to the publication of them on the authority 

 of Dr. Boisduval. 



Nemeophila geometrica Grote. 



This form has proved to be merely a black form of Nemeophila. This 

 reference was made by Dr. Packard in 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peab. Acad., 

 p. 86. I originally described the species from a single defective speci- 

 men, without antennae, in 1S65, as a Zygaenid, allied to Clenueha, in which 

 I was in error. My mistake is paralleled by that of Dr. Boisduval, who 

 described the black form of Epicallia virginalis, an Arctian, as a new 

 species of the Zygaenid genus Agarista. Mr. Strecker has quite super- 



