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pectinatefl anteiiine falliiiii- uudvr Sf/ssaitru Iliib. and the former with 

 simple pubescent anteiiiue in tiu; % , being by Mr. Warren put under 

 Drepanodes. Mr. Warren says the apecies of Syssaur a have elon- 

 gate fore wing.*, and short, straight pectinations of the % antennae, 

 while the species of Patd/ciir hav(; fully pectinated antenna' and less 

 falcate fore wings. Whether these distinctions will hold good I 

 cannot say. They seem scarcely distincrtive. Sicu/dta is placed by 

 Guenee under the first group (Drejxiiiodex^, but as he had only the 

 $ , and as I also have no Z , I am unable to verify the correctness 

 of the reference. It is ({uite likely not iSi/.'<saura in the above sense, 

 as the antennjB of the 9 are filiform not .serrate, and the fore wings 

 decidedly falcate. 



Species. — <S'. fiicuUtia (Juen. 



S. Ki/zijgi/arla Hulst. 

 S. inft>ii.'<iitii Guen. 



102. €ABEROI>E:i<i Guen. 

 Plial. i, 135. 1857. 



Type confuKar'ut Iliil). 



Palpi moderate, subascending, rough scali'd ; tongue strong; front 

 scaled, scarcely tufted ; antennie of S bipcictinate, ap(!x simple, of 

 1 serrate; thorax scaled, slightly hairy, hairy below; abdomen 

 scaled; hind tibite slightly swollen, without hair pencil, with all 

 spurs; fore wings rounded or very slightly angulate, without fovea 

 below, 12 veins (in one specimen 18), 10 and II from cell, stemmed 

 together at base; hind wings rounded or slightly angulate, o unde. 

 veloped, 6 and 7 separate, 8 separate from cell. 



The genus is scarcely to be separated from Metanenui Guen. ^[r. 

 Warren, giving the synonymy, says it is the same with Apicia Guen., 

 which it is not, as Apicia has hair pencil in $ . Then Mr. Warren 

 refers the term Caberodes for the first species described by Gnenee, 

 and puts the American species under Kux(trca Iliib. as Hiibner de- 

 scribed confusarla under that generic name. But in his description 

 of Caberodes Guenee gives the structure of the males, and also gives 

 a description of the larva. Of the species to which Mr. Warren 

 would refer Caberodfs Guenee says he had the 9 only, and did not 

 know till' S . nor the lai'va. The S described is confmaria, and the 

 larva is the larva of coiifn.-<(irl<t. Oiberodes cannot in anywise be 

 therefore referred to anything but confii.mria. With regard to 

 En!<(irc(( in the Exot. Schmet., there is no pretense to binomial no- 

 menclature, and no generic names can be taken from what is de 

 .scriptive merely, lliibner's first use of the term in anything like 



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