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witli liairy eyes and niiariiicd legs. The present generic retercn<;e can 

 not Le considerc'cl iiiial until ('(tiifiiiiu'd by an examination of new ma- 

 terial. 



T. vegeta Morr. 



1875. Morr., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., xxvii, 432, Taniocampa. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



The type is in the Tepper colleetion. A correctly named specimen 

 is also in the British Museum, from the Grote (collection. The s])ecies 

 is not a T<vniocampa and probably belongs to the fasciata^; but in de- 

 fault of sufficient study to place it certainly, I leave it here for the 

 l)resent. Mi-. Slingerland has called my attention to the iact that the 

 Cissusa spadix of Cramer, heretofore referred as a synonym of Bras- 

 teria erechtea, is a distinct species. On examination I find this to be 

 the fact, and it is more than likely that it will prove the same as the 

 above species, ]\Iaterial for study is lacking, thereibre the reference 

 can not be x)ositively made. 



Geuus STRETCHIA Hy. Edw. 

 1874. Hy. Edw., Proc. Ca]. Ac. Sci., v, 267. 



The species of this genns are treated and monograpliically described 

 under Pcriyrapha in the Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 490. The Euro- 

 pean species of JVn^ny)/ja have a very strong resemblance habitally 

 to the species of Stretchia, which has induced the reference of our spe- 

 cies to the Euroi^ean genus despite recognized dift'ereuces in structure. 

 The occurrence of a structurally typical Ferigraplia in our own fauna 

 renders a return to another generic term necessary, and Stretchia some- 

 what antedates Aeerra (Grt., Bull. Buft". Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 1G2). This 

 law of priority plays odd tricks occasionally and here necessitates the 

 use of a term originally referred to the Bombyc'idjB and irrecognizably 

 described as against another correctly placed and well described. 



S. normalis Grt. 



1874. Grt., IJull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 162, Aeerra. 



1875. Grt., Check List Noctiiidse, \^\. f. 4, Aeerra. 

 1879. Grt., Can. Ent., xi, 27, Grapkiphora. 



1881. Grt., Can. Ent., xiit, 133, Perigrapha. 



HABiTAT.--Callfornia. 



The type ig iii the British IMuscum. 



S. inferior Smith. * 



1887. Smith, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 477, Feri(jraj)ha. 



Habitat — California. 



The types are in the National Museum and in the Edwards colleo- 



tiou, 



