172 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



For the European bibliography Staudinger and other similar works 

 should be consulted. In America the species has been but rarely re- 

 ferred to. 



Genus NEPHELODES Gn. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Geu.,Noct., i, 129. 



N. minians Gu.* 



1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., i, 130, Nephelodes. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., ix, 163, Nephelodes. 

 1878. French, in 7th Rept. Ins. Ills., 99, 220, larva. 

 1818. French, Can. Ent., x, 61, larva. 



1880. Riley, Amer. Ent., iii, 205, larva. 



1881. Riley, Amer. Nat., xv, 575, 577, larva. 



1883. Lint., 1st Rept. State Ent., N. Y., 99, ff. 24, 25, life history. 

 expansa Wlk. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xi, 399, Graphiphora. 

 1865. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xxxv, 1957, pr. syn. 

 1868. G. and R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, ii, 78, pr. syn. 



sohria Wlk. 

 1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xi, 744, Graphiphora. 



var. violans Gn. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., i, 130, Nephelodes. 



1856. Wlk., C.B.Miis., Het., ix, 163, Nephelodes. 



1882. Grt., New List, 29, pr. var. 

 nuhdolens Wlk. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., x,40.^.. Gruphiphora. 



Habitat, — Canada; United States generally; Eastern States in Au- 

 gust and September; Colorado, August to October. 



The types of all the names are in the British Museum. G. expansa 

 Wlk., I did not find ; but as Walker has himself referred it as a synonym, 

 he may have removed the label — or what is equally possible, I over- 

 looked the specimen, though I found all the others referable here. G. 

 sohria is from Bogota, while subdolens is from " locality unknown." 



Genus TRICHOLITA Grt. 

 1875. Grt., Bull. Bnrt'. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 211, 215. 



T. signata Wlk.* 



1860. Wlk., Can. Nat. and Geol., v, 253, Nephelodes. 



1877. Grt., Can. Ent., ix, 28, TrichoUta. 



semiaperta Morr. 



1874. Morr., Can. Ent., vi, 105, Jlydroceia. 



1874. Morr., Froc. Bost. Soc. N. II., xvii, 150, Perigrapha. 



1875. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 211, 215, TrkhoUta. 

 1875. Grt., Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxvi, 341, TrichoUta. 



1877. Grt., Can. Ent., ix, 28, pr. syn. 



Habitat. — Canada; New York and Illinois in July and August; 

 Massachusetts in August; Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central 

 States; New Mexico. 



Mr. Morrison's type is in the Tepper collection. The Walker type is 

 in the collection of the Entomological Society of OntariOj and has been 



