AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Under Ecpantheria we find sennetii Lint., tlien C(eca Strk., our old 

 friend scribonia under the name ocularia Fab., cuniguuda being 

 awarded specific rank, and reduda Grt. ; ccBca Strek. and reducta 

 Grt. have long since been referred as synonyms of Leuearctia per- 

 maculata, which is in truth an Ecpantheria, though it does not appear 

 in Mr. Kirby's list. 



Hallsidota roseata reappears as a species under u'Emelia, widely 

 separated from H. cinnamomea Bdv., and we are again at sea as to 

 what was intended by these specific names. 



Under Arachnis we find zani credited to Mr. Schaus, while Mr. 

 Neumoegen is entitled to the honor. 



Subfamily V, the Spilosomatinse, shows, as the first familiar name, 

 Antarctia, to which none of our species are referred. In the ap- 

 pendix, however, A. heanii Neum. appears. 



Under Estigraene Hiib. we find acrcea as type, and permacidata, al- 

 bida and f niobe Strk. as other species. Spilosoma nigrojiava Gi'aef, 

 is cited as a synonym to E. permacidata, to which it has not the 

 slightest resemblance. E. niobe Strk. has been referred to Seirarctia 

 echo. E. permaculata Pack, is an Ecpantheria, as has been already 

 stated. Cycnia dubia Wlk., appears here as an Estigmene ; Messrs. 

 Grote and Robinson, from an examination of the type, referred it to 

 Phragmatobia. 



Spi/osoma is unchanged. In Hyphantria we have canea, textor and 

 piuictata as good species, though their identity has been proved to 

 demonstration time and again. Spilosoma congrua Wlk, correctlv 

 appears as a synonym of H. cunea. Why Mr. Kirby restored these 

 specific terms when there is practical unanimity among American 

 students in referring them to the synonymy, puzzles me. 



Ectypia bivittata should have Spilosoma nigroflava as a synonym. 

 Euerythra, wrongly written in the body of the work, is con-ected in 

 the appendix. 



Cycnia Pliib. is used for most of our species of Euchcetes, and 0. 

 tenera Hiib., from the " Southern States," is nained as type. We 

 find also C budea Hiib. as from the same locality. I am not aware 

 that either tenera or budea are known in our collections. In Fareu- 

 chceies we find cadaverosa, affinis and conspicua. If the genus is a 

 good one, other species must be referred to it. Vanessodes is sand- 

 wiched in here, though it has little resemblance to those of the sur- 

 rounding forms that are known to me. Seirarctia is unchanged, and 

 so is Pyrrharctia, which ends the subfamily. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XX. JANUARY, 1893. 



