Km; the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



is differently shaped from the iigure, the last claw of the outer series being 

 placed much further towards its upper end. The drawing of these parts 

 is a matter of much nicety, and while Mr. Smith may be complimented 

 upon his plate, I am not able to recognise the figure of this species. It is 

 certain that the claws do break off, or are not developed, for in one speci- 

 men the outer series is plainly reduced to three. 



This generic term might be retained for the following reasons : I use 

 it in 1874-5 in the sense of AiitJioecia Guen., which cannot be kept, the 

 type, Cardui, being also the type of Melidcptria. In my list I include 

 18 species, Celeris erroneously, as I show this to be a Mclicleptria. I 

 retained the genera Tainila, Euleiicyptera, Sc/ii/iia, Oria, based on but 

 few species, as distinct. I did this for the reason that I was under the 

 impression that the modifications of the armature of the fore tibiae would 

 give generic characters when all the species were compared, which I never 

 pretended to do, or had the means of doing until very recently. I was 

 also interested in keeping the generic synonymy plain, so that the types 

 might be understood, and, unless I have come to a positive conclusion, I 

 have preferred to keep the old genera alive until the family is mono- 

 graphed. The term '' Sc/z/z/ui" is "resurrected" by me out of the 

 Verzeic/piiss, where it is used for the three species, graci/enta, trifascia, 

 bifascia ; the other species, tuber cnluin, is referred by Hubner to another 

 genus. No other author uses this term before me, and I consider Tri- 

 fascia as typical. Taiiiila is used by Guenee' for ti single species, Nun- 

 di/ia, respecting which I have been in error until last fall, when I examined 

 it carefully for the first time, and found it to be a Lygra/it/ioecia. Illness 

 prevented my continuing and finishing my paper (which is now completed 

 with this instalment) 'until after the appearance of Mr. Smithes paper, in 

 which this fact is first publicly established. Mr. Smith interestingly shows 

 that Enlcucyptera does not sufticiently differ, so that this genus with its 

 single species must also be retired. As to Forriina, I had associated 

 saiigi/i/wa and rcgia, but now accept the conclusion that the modifications 

 of armature they show are not generic. In my New Check List I kept 

 Antlioecia temporarily for the yellow-winged forms, of which Aiithoecia 

 jiiguariiia Ckien. may be considered typical, the number of species of the 

 marginata type having grown ; it is manifestly only a " color genus," and, 

 as I had previously shown that (Tuenee"s term was inapplicable, my action 

 was injudicious. I am not satisfied, however, that all of Mr. Smith's 

 Schinia belong to J.ygra/if/ioecia. Except my Tricopis chryscl/its, I 



