2 JOHN B. SMITH. 



at least, with perfect correctness in my opinion. It would have been 

 better to have gone yet further and excluded the Cossidte and Hepi- 

 aWdse. The former family has very distinctive Pyralid characters 

 and has little to associate them with either Sphinges or Bombyces. 

 The Hepialidie are still more unique, and Prof. Comstock has re- 

 cently pointed out that with the Micropterygida? they share a char- 

 acter not elsewhere found in the Lepidoptera and again found in the 

 Phryganseidje. 



Family I is the Castniidse, family II is the Cocytiidse, family III, 

 the Uraniidae, under the first of which only are there any North 

 American species. Megaihymm is, in my opinion, a true butterfly — 

 not a moth. 



Family IV, the Agaristidae, contains of our forms, the genera Pseud- 

 alypia, A/ypiodes, Androloma, Alypia, Psychomorpha, Euedwardsia, 

 Copidryas, Fenarla, Eidhisanoiia and Ciris. Under Alypiodes we 

 have crescens Wlk., with grotei Bdv. and flavilinguis Grt., as syno- 

 nyms; and bhnacxdata 'R.-'^., with trimaculata Bdv. as synonym. 

 The identification of grotei and flavilinguis with crescens is correct, 

 as I have previously pointed out (Can. Ent. June, 1892), and I am 

 inclined to believe that the other names also refer to the same species, 

 and that biviacidata H.-S. must be used to indicate our form as is 

 done in my Check List. 



To Aiidroloma, which is given generic rank, are referred the Alypia 

 lorquinii, maccullochi, ridingsii, similis and brannani of my list. 

 The genus Fenaria is used for sevorsa Grt., and Fhcegorista (not 

 Phcegarista, as I have it) is placed in the Nyctenieridae, a widely 

 separated family. Eidhisanotia Hiib. is used in the sense that we 

 use Eudryas, and unio is given as type of the genus. I am not pre- 

 pared to assent to this decision without more investigation. I am 

 inclined to believe that Boisduval's name Eudryas can be rescued 

 for use as in our lists. The use of the other generic terms accords 

 with our own. Metagarista f sabulosa Bdv., illustrated in Felder 

 Lep. iv, t. 107, fig. 11, is credited to California. I do not know the 

 species. 



Neither the Chalcosiidpe, nor the Thymaridse are credited with 

 species from our fauna. 



The term Zygisnidas is used in the widest possible sense, excejit 

 that the Agaristidie included by Mr. Grote are here excluded, and 

 one hundred and sixty-five genera are accredited to the family. It 

 would be difficult, indeed, to get a definition of this assemblage with- 



