AMEKICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 6 



out including also one-third of the other families of Lepidoptera. 

 Nine subfamilies are, however, recognized, which may be taken up 

 in order. 



In the first subfamily, the Anthroceridse, no species from our fauna 

 are listed. In the Adscitinse we find Mr. Hy. Edwards' species, 

 Penthetria, under the name Tantura, the former genus being marked 

 pre-occupied. I am very doubtful, indeed, whether our species ai'e 

 near enough to Adscita, as Itio Leach is here termed, to belong to 

 the same family, but I agree with Mr. Kirby in giving at least a 

 subfamily rank to the diflferences between Ino (Adscita) and Zygoena. 

 I have elsewhere pointed out an essential difference in the venation 

 between these forms. In the appendix Thia extranea Hy. Edw. is 

 referred to this subfamily. In the Zygteninse no species are credited 

 to our fauna, nor are there any in the Thyratinae or Phaudinse. 



To the Pyromorphime, Acoloithus, Harrisina, Triprocris, Pyro- 

 morpha, Lycomorpha and Anatolmis are referred ; though I have 

 pointed out tliat there are essential differences between Anatolmis 

 and Lxjcomorpha and the other genera with which they are associated 

 by Mr. Kirby. With these two genera excluded Mr. Kirby includes 

 of our fauna the species ranged under the term Pyromorphidfe in my 

 list. Triprocris aversus Hy. Edw. is erroneously recorded as from 

 Arizona, whereas it was described from Jalapa, Mexico. Lycomor- 

 pha rata belongs to Pyromorjjha as referred in my list. 



The Euchromiinse contain the largest series in the " Zygsenidse," 

 and of our species has Syntomeida ipomece Harr., using this generic 

 term instead of Euchromia, and citing /eroa; Wlk., and euterpe H.-S. 

 as synonyms; Dahana atripennis ; Phyllcecia (Guer.) texanus for So- 

 rama texana; Erruca periyi, Didasys belce and Cosmosoma aiige Linn. 

 (= omphale Hiib.). Burtia rubella from Cuba, so close to Didasys 

 belce that they seem like the same species, and are certainly identical 

 generically, is placed in the 'IVichurinse under Herrich-Schaeffer's 

 name Gundlachia. Syntomeida epilais is not credited to Florida, 

 though well recorded thence. 



Neither the Trichurinse nor the Antichlorinse are represented in 

 our fauna. 



The Arctiidse are ranged in six subfamilies and two hundred and 

 thirty-one genera, introducing a great many changes in the accepted 

 nomenclature. 



In the Charideinse, containing thirty-eight genera and many spe- 

 cies, our own fauna is represented only by Nelplie Carolina Hy. Ed\v. 



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



