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Appears to represent the European Anccrta cordigera in our fauna ; the 

 differences between the species are perhaps sufficiently great to render a 

 detailed comparison unnecessary. We have received several specimens 

 of the present species from Mr. Couper, collected in the vicinity of 

 Quebec, and which are apparently all males. We look with interest to 

 the discovery of this very interesting species in other localities. 



SYNEDA, Guenee. 

 Syneda hudsonica, n. sp. (Plate 3, fig. 7, % ; fig. 8, 9 .) 



S • Anterior wings pulverulent, blackish, powdered with greyish 

 scales, especially in basal and terminal spaces. The transverse anterior 

 line is blackish, indistinct, and margins inwardly the wide, outwardly 

 oblique, paler median band, which latter is a characteristic feature in 

 the alar ornamentation of the genus. This band in the present species 

 is wide, nowhere constricted, very pale where it margins the transverse 

 anterior line, shading into brownish ochraceous along the median shade 

 line, surmounted at costa, before which it terminates, by a narrower 

 patch of greyish scales. The transverse posterior line is black, distinct. 



The large angular spot beyond the discal cell is covered with whitish 

 scales, thrice excavated outwardly by the transverse posterior line, the 

 middle excavation not so profound as in Syneda graphica* Hiibner sp. 

 Subtermiual line whitish, irregularly undulate, not so straight as in 

 •V. graphica and somewhat as in S. Howlandii Grrote, superiorly pre- 

 ceded by three unequal cuneiform black marks. An oblique apical 

 shade ; the terminal space is blackish, thickly covered with greyish 

 scales ; a regularly undulate terminal dark line ; fringes dark greyish. 



Posterior wings extremely pale yellow ; median band black, broad. 



* Guenee Xoct. 3, p. 71, gives Hiibner as authority for Syneda limbolaris Geyer 

 sp., while this was not published except by Geyer in the fourth hundred of the 

 •' Zutraege," although referred to by Hiibner by name in the third hundred in 

 describing Aedia fasciolaris Hub., with which he regarded our species as con- 

 generical. Geyer distinctly states in his "Vorerinnerung" that Hiibner merely 

 left a few names and no descriptions of any of the species described and figured 

 in the fourth hundred in the following words : " Ohne weitere, von ihm (Hiib- 

 ner) schriftlich hinterlassene Bemerkungen, als die, des Vaterlandes und des 

 Einsenders der vorliegenden Arten, von welchen jedoch einige wenige schon 

 durch ihn benaunt worden waren," etc. Since then Geyer has nowhere spe- 

 cially quoted Hiibner's MSS. to any of the species in the fourth and fifth hun- 

 dreds of the "Zutraege," we must accept Geyer as the authority to all of the 

 species contained in these two latter parts which were not previously described 

 by authors. 



In describing Syneda Hmolandii Proc. Ent. Soc, Vol. 3, p. 533, Mr. Grote has 

 by error given Hiibner instead of Guenee as the authority for the generic 

 name. 



