Till'. 1 ANAIUAN i;NTitM(i|,()(ilSl'. 1 1 



ana I do not know except tVoni ;) \ic\v of tlic type. I'lie rest seem very 

 distinct. 



I'l Aiiio.MLMict s (Irote (1S73). 



The tliree s|)eeies which I now lelei' to thi> ;j,emis ;igrce in the peculiar 

 frontal e\ca\atit»n. the smaller of them { Tcppcri ) showing it less |>romin- 

 ently. There is a ])erfeit resemblaiue in the markings : the position of 

 the lines and the dark triangular spot crowning the siibterminal field of 

 primaries above, especialh in the form of the thora.x and in the peculi- 

 arity of the legiihv. which spread a\\a\ from the thorax and are furnished 

 at tips with ele\ated scales. In the two larger s^jecies ( J'iiyoc/iro/nus and 

 Expallidiis) the cii])-like frontal excavation is completely exposed. 



1. rityochroiiiiis (irote, Bull. B. S. N. S., I., 1S27, 1873. Schinia 



mciiia Morr.. Proc. Best. S. N. H., 123, 1875. 

 Southern, ^\'estern and Middle States. 



2. Expallidiis (irote. Montana. 



3. Tippcri Morr.. Froc. Ac. N. .S. Phil.. 68, 1875; Grote. Bull. B. S. 



N. S.. III.. 75. 1875. 

 Texas. 

 J\ Tcppcri is a lovely species of a dusky green tinge, and the neat 

 markings show very distinctly against the ground color. Mr. Morrison 

 gives the unarmed fore til)i;u as a distinguishing character of Polenta as 

 compared with Schinia. JUit the genus is not allied to Schinia. but to 

 Fala and Stibadiuin and Stiria. The characters of the "'front" and the 

 tegular are not noticed by Mr. Morrison, who based his genus on a single 

 erroneous character. The fore tibiai are armed in all the species, not un- 

 armed in Tcppcri, as stated bv Mr. Smith. 



Catocala Skmirki.icta (irote. 



In Mr. Xeumoegen's collection is a specimen exactly like my type and 

 tigiue and description : the white patches on the ])rimaries, the ])inkish red 

 secondaries, the abbrexiate black band, are all represented. There is, 

 then, an intermediate specimen in which the fore wings are a little grayer 

 all over, and then the type form tlescribed as J'lira. There is not a 

 shadow of a doubt on ni}- mind, after seeing these, that they all belong to 

 one species. Documentary evidence exists that before its description Mr. 

 Strecker also regarded J^nra as the same as Semirelicta. or very near it. 

 I'inally it seems to have been agreed to refer Semirelicta as a \ariely ol 



