A. R. Grote's Notes on (he Zygxnidx of Cuba. 309 



tinct genera of Bbmbycidae, and the second is a Zygsenid allied to 

 Apistosia, Ctenucha and Ctenuchidia, but affording a distinct generic 

 type. 



No characters of generic or family significance hold together Urano- 

 phora and Carathis; as well might both be referred to Sphinx, as to 

 Charidea. 1 have altered the position of Carathis to the sub-family 

 Arctiidse, where I am satisfied it most naturally stands. It is a difficult 

 genus of unusual habitus, and the characters which induce my present 

 reference are those which ally it to Eupseudosoma, and allied genera. 

 But both Carathis and Erithales are valid genera, and both belong to 

 the family Bombycidae. Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer is then accountable for 

 his fresh synonyms of these species which had been previously properly 

 named by Authors. 



Owiug to the circumstance that Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer and myself 

 were contemporaneously engaged in writing on these Moths, the fol- 

 lowing synonyms have occurred, which I here enumerate in the order 

 in which the insects were given in the pages of the Correspondenz 

 Blatt : 



BURTIA, Grote. 

 Burtia rubella. Grote. (Plate 5, fig. l,% .) 



Burtia rubella, Grote. Notes Zyg. Cub. Part 1, P. E. S. P. Vol. 6, p. 186, (14.) 



(July, 1866.) 

 Gundlachia cruenta, Herrich-Schaeff., Corr. Bl. No. 7, p. 108. (July, 1866.) 



The name Grundlachia,* having been previously used in Mollusca, 

 the name which I have given to this species, at the same time, will be 

 properly retained. There is also a " Glaucopis cruenta, Perty," which 

 might cause confusion in the specific name proposed for this species by 

 Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer. 



*This name lias also been provisionally used by Mr. E. T. Cresson for a genus 

 of Cuban hymenoptera. 



I have since received three fresh ( % ) specimens of B. rubella, from Dr. Gund- 

 lach, differing from my original specimens as follows; the legs, though "whit- 

 ish" inwardly, are outwardly entirely sanguineous. The slender palpi are held 

 apart and are projected beyond the "front." The two sanguineous spots of the 

 primaries are obsolete. The anal hairs and margins of the wings are blackish, 

 not •• brown." These differences are partly to be attributed to inconstancy and 

 partly to the condition of the original specimens in which the palpi were defec- 

 tive. This species, with its bright crimson or sanguineous body and frail, vit- 

 reous, narrowly margined wings, is unusually beautiful in appearance, even 

 when compared with its brilliant associates. 



