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vergente, neque ut in prre^edente cum altera paralella, nee non macula diseoi- 

 dali alarum posticarum in fasciam produota et cum spatio nigro marginali con- 

 fluente. Specimina vero qure possideo, quum valde detrita sink, uec diagnosin 

 nee figuram exactam confieere permittunt. 



From the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada. 



20. Syneda Edwardsii, Behr. 



Alc« anticffi fusco-violacere. Linere medianre pallidre, bene impressre, Iraves, 

 medio convergentes spatium medianuin saturatius medio constriotum amplec- 

 tuntur. Macula extracellularis parum apparet atque tantum cognoscitur 

 umbra saturate brunnea, quas extus raaculam circumdat et spatium inter ma- 

 culamet medianam externam occupat. Linese submarginalis principia costalia 

 tantum exstant, duobusque punctis saturatis indicantur, reliqua vix apparet. 

 Alse posticse lutese, puneto disoali crasso fasciiformi, cum limbo nigro confluente, 

 qui per fasciam luteam undulatara dividitur. Cunctfe signaturjB nigrse valde 

 crassse. Subtus alse anticte fulvse, maculis et fasciis nigris varie et irregulariter 

 signatae. AliB posticce violacese fere ut supra signatse. 



Not rare at Alameda and other localities ia Contracosta. Resembles 

 iu flight and habits an EucUdla. 



I have not yet succeeded in finding the larva of any of the species of 

 this interesting genus. As to its systemat^ical position, I am under the 

 impression that it is intermediate between Bolina and EucUdla. It 

 may be that Parthoins Nuhilis of the eastern States is of the same 

 affinity, and forms a connecting link between Syneda and the Homop- 

 teriJes. Its affinity to the Catocalides appears to me doubtful, but it 

 is not time to discuss these questions, as long as the larva state of nei- 

 ther of them is known. 



21. Homoptera Salicis, Behr. 



Alis omnibus brunneis, denticulatis, lineis indistinctis undulatis obscuratis. 

 Spatium limbale cinereum versus apicem anticum colore brunneo superatum, a 

 linea submarginalo saturatiori intus susceptum. AUe anticpe insuper linea api- 

 cal! suffuSti signatiB, carum que limbus cinereus per umbram in media ala in- 

 terruptus. Subtus aire omnes fusc£e, lineis parallelis undulatte. Puucta discoi- 

 dalia discerni vix possunt. 



One specimen, raised from a caterpillar found on willows. It was 

 without fringes but resembling, by the black ventral spots and in gen- 

 eral appearance, a half-grown caterpillar of Catocala Nupta. 



22. Homoptera Rosae, Behr. 



Praecedenti persimilis, sed differt spatio limbali saturatiori, neque ut in prce- 

 cedente cinereo. 



This species varies, by the parallel undulate lines being more or less 

 defined, and by a basal space of more saturated tinge, bordered by an 

 arcuate line vicariating for the interior median line. 



All my specimens originate from a brood of caterpillars found in a 

 garden at San Francisco on a rosebush. They resembled the caterpil- 

 lars of U. salicis. but were of a darker and more brownish hue. 



