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passed upon as if already well described. So that it seems to me that 

 Mr. Smith's refusal to recognise certain proposed genera is not the result 

 of their want of given characters but of their authorship. Genera such as 

 Rhododipsa (not " Rhododispa," and of the few names, " Hypsoropta," 

 " Autoplaga," " Pangrapha," " Pseudoglossa/' "Lepidomis," "Nolophana," 

 " Panapoda," " Melicliptria," " Macrohypena," " Shinia,'' etc., are by Mn 

 Smith wrongly written) Bull. U. S. G. Surv., vol. 3, 797, are ^sufficiently 

 described when the eyes, tibiae, clypeus and palpi are noticed comparatively. 

 But an author who considers the color of Sa?iguinea and Florida, and their 

 pattern, the same, must be manufacturing his case or be possessed of an 

 honest disregard of differences. Here, also, Mr. Smith unites Porrima 

 and Rhodophora, although, joined to other differences of armature and 

 vestiture, the palpi are "horizontal" in one case and slightly " drooping" 

 in the other. The palpal difference is all, so far as I can see, to separate 

 Eucalyptera from Scolecocanipa, and yet Mr. Smith considers them beyond 

 question distinct, while Porrima and Rhodophora are united. I do not 

 verify even this palpal difference of Eucalyptera and cannot consider the 

 genera distinct. As to Metahadena it appears now that it has a claw, and 

 the distinction between it and Oiicocnemis is in order ; the character is not 

 given by its author, whose diagnosis gives no single distinctional character 

 from Hovwhadeiia. 



Yrias Clientis, n. s. 



Size moderate, a little larger than Guenee's figure of Progenies. Rather 

 light brown with both wings crossed by a number of dark brown, nearly 

 equally distinct, transverse lines, a little uneven and oblique, bent superi- 

 orily ; the median lines most distinct. On costa the dark costal dots are 

 relieved by a pale yellowish shade, obtaining especially centrally. An 

 apical black V-shaped mark, enclosed by pale streaks, giving the effect of 

 an ocellus. Body untufted, cylindrical. Beneath paler, with three faint 

 shade bands on hind wings and two, the inner faint, on fore wings. Fringes 

 brown. Arizona. Expanse 28 mil. 



Yrias Repentis Grote. 



I referred this species originally to Homopyralis, but it rather belongs 

 to this genus, not previously described from North America. This species 

 is known by the running inwards of the I. p. line. Expanse 26 mil. 

 Arizona. 



