16 THE CANADIAN" ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ccrastis cupida. 



Nodiia cupida, Ch-ote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. 111. 



Eastern States ; New York; Pennsylvania. 



Telesilla clncrcola. 



This species is the Plaanics cincreola of Guenee, but the generic name 

 had been previously used, and Herrich-Schafifer in consequence proposed 

 the present designation for the European amethystina, and which should 

 be retained for our species. Eederer's term Eiicarta is later and has 

 been withdrawn, in favor of Tclcsilla, by its author. Hubner enumerates 

 the European species under Trigonophora, the type of which is quite 

 ■distinct structurally from Telesilla aincthystina, 



Pliisia gauuna, (Einn). 



Habitat, California (Hy. ELdwards, No. 147). 



I cannot distinguish the American specimens specifically. This 

 ■species has been credited to Canada by Kirby (p. 307), and also to 

 Hudson's Bay by ]\Ir. ^^^alker, in the British ]\Iuseum Eists. 



Adipsophancs miscelhis, Cirote. 



Habitat, California (Hy. Edwards, No. 187). 



ENTOMOEOGICAE READINGS, 



Suggestive and Refiective. 



I'.V W. v. ANDRFAVS, NEW YORK. 



'•' There are no satisfactory distinctions between some of the moths 

 which enable any one to say that the}^ are of such and such species, and 

 very frequently they are separated into different kinds because they happen 

 to feed on various plants, and because the moths are not all colored in 

 the same manner. Of course the Entomologists that believe in the real 

 nature of species have taken a vast deal of trouble with the Noctuina, but 

 those who do not think a species to be anything more than an abstract 

 idea, and that it rcall\' consists of the sum of the variations of a closely 

 -allied series of forms, do not see the use of this Natural History hair 

 -Splitting."— Z>////f(7;/'j Transf. of Insects, p. I2j. 



