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as Mr. Dyar follows my restitution of H a b r o s y n e , a genus structurally 

 related to P s e u d o t h y a t i r a Grote. Mr. Dyar writes me also, under May 6, 

 that Melalopha and Data na may prove to belong to the E upterotidae. 

 If Datana, then I would include Phalera: I have suggested as probable that 

 both genera have a common preglacial ancestor, the slightly differentiated 

 species in both genera may have originated in postglacial time. Finally I 

 mettion that I originally, in 18G4, described Apatelodes angelica under 

 Parathyris, and it seems pos-sibly nearer the South American P. cedonulli, 

 in shape and structure of primary, than it ia to A p a te 1 o d es torrefacta. 

 I cannot say, in default of material, but we may leave this and other questions 

 relating to the Eupterotidae to Mr. Wm. Schaus, who will soon give us 

 further information from bis studies of the group. 



Heliophila. 



The type of obusta, is darker than my var. callida, Grt. Ess. 40, 

 and I have never seen such a specimen in Am. collectiuns. It is not true, 

 therefore, that it is "just esactly"' my variety, Sm. Cat. 190. The usual red 

 variety should therefore be labelled callida in collections, until the exact 

 equivalent of obusta is turned up and the matter settled. In Can. 

 Eut. XIII., 15, I say that 1 believe under this name Guenee has described a 

 red form of p s e u d a rgy r i a, but, after seeing the type in Brit. Mus., I raade 

 the note that it was darker and more intensely coloured than the ordinary 

 specimens in coli, which I subsequently named callida. 



The following synonyraical study will show that I am correct in using 

 the generic title Tarache: 



Acontia Ochs. 181G, 4, Ol. A. malvae, aprica, caloris, 



titania, solaris, luctuosa. Hühner, Verz. 257, restricts it to malvae, 



whicli thus becomes the type and Xanthodes Guen., proposed for the 



same type, must fall. No American species described. Tarache Hübu. 



1818 (1822?), Verz, 261; Hühner proposes the name for caloris, solaris, 



aprica, opalina and an undescribed species. Grote. 1874, takes aprica 



as type. For this genus the term Acontia is incorrectly used by Authors. 



Mr. Smith, Cat. 309, remarks "Eustrotia llbn., bears date the same 



year (as Erastria) but was certainly not published until 1818 at least". I 



do not know if the above statement was intended to be original. Erastria 



Ochs, falls, not because younger tham Eustrotia, but because Erastria 



is preoccupied by IJübner in 180G for a genus ofGeometridae, aal have 



repeatedly shown for this twenty years past. It is in the same case with 



C y m a t p h r a. 



Baileya Grt. I propose this term for Leptina Guen. preoccupied. 

 Named for the late Dr. Jas. S. Bailey. 



Euglyphia Hübn. Verz. 203: This term is already used by Hühner 

 himself, Verz. 190, Euglyphis. Kctain Noropsis here for hierogly|)hica, and 

 refer Euglyphia to the synonyuiy. 



Alabama Grt- Ty|)e: A. argillacea Hübn. Since argillacea is not 

 included in the genus Aletia in the Verzeichniss, it must have been published 

 in tlic Zutrae^e after this signature of the Verzeichniss was printed: therefore 

 a new term for the Cotton worm is necessary, since it diflers geuerically from 

 any of the species of Aletia of the Verzeichniss. Mr. Hülst at least will not 

 object t'i the name Alabama: it is an Indian wonl and means: Here we rest. 



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