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Moschler, which is kept separate by Pagenstecher, but in the 

 same genus (Cidaria). Hulst writes (ENT. NEWS, vi, 70, 

 1895) "The type of PsychopJwra sabinii Curt, is in the [Brit- 

 ish] Museum. The middle band of the fore wings is quite dis- 

 tinct and it differs very much from the ' seal brown ' immacu- 

 late form which Dr. Packard had from Polaris Bay [Described 

 by Hulst as var. polaris, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 52, 287, 1903]. 

 Yar. frigidaria Gn. ii, 269, is, I think, not different from the 

 blackish form described by Dr. Skinner as Glaucoptery.v iunna- 

 cu/ata. There are some specimens taken in Grinnell L,and 

 which closely approach the form w r hich Dr. Packard had." 



I wrote to Sir George Hampson to kindly examine Curtis' 

 types, but he writes : " We have not got Curtis' type of Psy- 

 chophora sabinii, but have specimens from Grinnell Land, Nova 

 Zembla and Scandinavia ; they are Geometridae, L/arentinae of 

 perfectly normal structure." Therefore, I have no evidence 

 from the original types, as I hoped to have after reading 

 Hulst' s note. The specimens in the British Museum are evi- 

 dently of \hefrigidaria form. 



Hulst' s definition of the genus Psychophora (Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. , xxiii, 290, 1896) is : " Palpi porrect, rough-haired, mod- 

 erate ; tongue developed ; clypeus very broad, flattish, rough- 

 scaled ; antennae bipectinate in male, filiform, pubescent in fe- 

 male, thorax rough, hairy. Abdomen rough, hairy, untufted. 

 Wing-vestiture hairy, fore wings 12 veins, two accessory cells,* 

 3 and 4 close at base, 10 and 1 1 from cell, 12 free ; hind wings 

 eight veined, 3 and 4 close together, 5 at middle of cell, 6 and 

 7 stemmed, 8 anastomosing with cell to beyond middle ; hind 

 legs with two pairs of spurs." To which is added, fore wing 

 with vein 7 stemmed with 8, from the synopsis on page 255. 



The second identification of Psychophora is typified by Skin- 

 ner's P. fasdata. The generic characters, following Hulst' s 

 form are : Palpi porrect, very roughly haired, moderate ; tongue 

 developed ; clypeus very broad, slightly bulging, hairy ; an- 

 tennae shortly bipectinate, the pectinations decreasing on outer 

 third, but showing as serrations close to apex, pubescent ; 



* Should be one accessory cell as Hulst's synoptic table gives, and as 

 specimens of frigidaria before me show. 



