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1S39. ivipliiviata Wood, Lep. Ins. of Great Brit., p. 6io. 



1840. " Boisd., Index Method, 1767, p. 214. 



1847. " H.-S., Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Eur, III, p. 168, 



pi. 31, fig. 193. 



1S50. unpluviata Stephens, Cat. Brit. Lep, p. 195. 



1853. " La Harpe, Sclimett., p. 295. 



1857. " Verz. Wien., p. 109, K. 5. 



1857. " Gn., Thai, II, p. 377, 1504. 



1S57. pluviata Gn., Phal, II, p. 378, 1505. 



i860, (divharia) ? Walk., List Lep. But. Mus., XXI, p. 489. 



1862. reniinciata Walk., List Lep. Brit. Mus., XXIV, p. 1187. 



1862. ijnpluviata Walk., List Lep. Biit. Mus., XXIV, p. 1267. 



1862. pluviata Walk., List Lep. Brit. Mus., XXIV, p. 1268. 



1862. frigidata Walk., List Lep. Brit. Mas., XXVI, p. 1729. 



1876. trifasciata Pack., Monog. Geom., p. 91, pi. VIII, fig. 29. 



1889. trifasciata Zieg., B. E. Z , XXXIII, p. 7, S. B. 



1895. autunmalis Hulst, Ent. News, XI, p. 43. 



1904. autuvmalis Dyar, List Koot. Dist., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

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1904. autuDmalis Petersen, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb., XVI, p. 73. 



1906. constrida Strand, Ach. Naturv. Christ., XXII, No. 5. 



1906. nigrescens Hoyn.-Heune, Berl. Ent. Zeit , LI, p. 254. 



1906. constrida Strand, Ent. Zeit., Gub. XIV, p. 61. 



1906. coiuj7ibiataT2L)\or, Can. Ent., XXXVIII, p. 399. 



1906. atitiimnalis Hoyn.-Heune, Berl. Ent. Zeit., LI, p. 254. 



1907. " Gatnar, Wien. Jahr. Berl. Ent. Ver., 18, p. 37-42. 

 1 9 10. " Dyar, Harriman Alaska Exped., p. 222. 



1 9 10. perfracta Swett, Can. Ent., XLII, No. 8, p. 279. 

 1910. fr^/^^r/ Swett, Can. Ent., XLII, No. 8, p. 278. 



BATS VS. MOSQUITOES. 

 We have received the following interesting letter from Dr L. O. 

 Howard, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, who has kindly 

 given us permission to publish it : 



State Board of Health of Florida 



Jacksonville, Fla., June 26, 191 2. 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Dear Doctor, — I thank you very much for your favour of the 24th. I 

 had looked askant at the idea of bats reducing the number of mosquitoes 



AuëTust, 1912. 



