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Ilelicr p<ili,1nrhr,ila GnAMBERS, Can. Ent., IX, 1877, p. 15. 



Helirr , /I, .litsr/,;.; I/a Ch\mhkr>^, Can. Ent., IX, 1877, p. 232. 



(klechht yh'dlmjhudla Chambers, Bull. IL S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 144.— Riley, 



Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, p. 113. 

 Not Ilelice palUdoclirella Walsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., X, 1882, 



p. 188.— MuRTFELDT, Can. Ent., XV, 1883, p. 95. 



I have given a full review of this species, types of which are in the 

 jNluseuni of Comparative Zoolog}' and in U. S. National Museum. 

 llah J fat. —Kentucky. 



EVIPPE Chanibers. 



(Plate XXIX, tig. 13.) 



Evippe Ckambers, Can. Ent., V, 1873, p. 185. 

 Phcetusa Chambers, Can. Ent., VII, 1875, p. 106. 



La))ial palpi long recurved, nearly smooth, second joint somewhat 

 thickened beneath, terminal joint slender, pointed, nearly as long as 

 second joint. Forewings elongate ovate, pointed, 12 veins, 7 and 8 

 out of (), 4 and 5 connate, or short stalked, rest separate. 



Hindwings nearly as broad as forewings, trapezoidal, apex produced, 

 pointed, termen sinuate; 7 veins, G absent, 7 to costa just before apex, 

 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximate to 4, 2 distant. Cell not closed ])etween 

 5 and 7. 



Chamljers's types of the types of both genera are in the U. S. National 

 Museum and prove that they are congeneric. Chambers compared 

 gonerically and specificallv his Phoetusa pluteJla with Emi^pe j>funi- 

 folidla saying: 



The only reason for separation is found in the neuration. The other characters 

 are those of Evippe, and it {phUella) is very nesir to pmidf oil ella in ornamentation.' 



But ho contradicts himself in trying to show the supposed ditfei'onces 

 in venation by wi'iting that 



The last branch of median vein in forewing of Evippe is simple, 

 while in the original description of that genus he says: 



Median V)ecomes furcate l)ehind the cell. 



And this he repeats while describing his genus Eldothoa.'^ 



The latter statement is correct, and thus it is also in Pha'tuf^a^ as 

 stated by Chambers. 



The only other differences in venation pointed out bv Chambers are 

 in the hindwings, where he thought that vein 6 and discal nervure is 

 present in Phcetusa. while absent in Evqype. It is easy to see, with a 

 perfect s ide of the wing before one, how the fold has misled Cham- 

 bers to see a vein 6, which really is not present, and a similar mistake 



'Can. Ent., VII, p. 106. Mdem., V, p. 187. 



