288 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tlio blunder was mine, based on insufficient material. I am much less 

 ready nowadays to believe in the specific identity of European and 

 American species. Oreyona is near to and represents ononis, as pldo- 

 gophagus represents dipsaceotis. So, also, Mr. Butler seems not to know 

 that I am responsible for uniting AdonUea witli Melidexdria, a union 

 which I still consider perfectly x^roper. 



Genus MELICLEPTRIA Hbn. 



1816. Hiibuer, Verzeicliniss, 262. 



M. celeris Grt. 



1873. Grt., BulL Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 148, Meliclepirla. 

 1882. Grt., New List, 36, Euros. 



1882. Grt., Can. Eut., xiv, 171, MeUcleptria. 



1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, X, 244, Melideptrla. 



Habitat. — Southern California. 

 The tyx^e is iu the Edwards collection. 



M. pulchripennis Grt.* 



1874. Grt., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 241, Meliclepfna. 



1875. Grt., BulL Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 220, Adonisea. 



1882. Grt., 111. Essay, 62, pi. in, f. 31, Adonisea. 



1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc, x, 244, MeUcleptria. 

 languida Hy. Edw. 



1881. Hy. Edw., Papilio, i, 20, pr. var, 



1883. Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc, x, 244, pr. syn. 



Habitat. — California; Colorado. 



I have not seen the type. The British Museum specimens seem not 

 to be such; but are the sjiecies commonly so known iu American collec- 

 tions. 



M. graefiana Topper. 



1883. Tepper, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, x, 245, MeUcleptria. 



Habitat. — Southern California. 

 The type is in the Tepper collection. 



M. villosa Grt.* 



1864. Grt., Proc. Ent. Soc Phil., iii, 531, pi. vi, f. 6, MeUcleptria. 

 1868. G. E., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, ni, 181, Anihwcia. 

 1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc, x, 244, MeUcleptria. 



paiixillus Grt. 

 1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 118, pi. iii, f. 6, HeliotMs. 

 1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc, x, 244, pr. syn. 



var. persimilis Grt. 

 1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 117, pi. iii, f. 11, Heliothii. 

 1883. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, x, 244, pr. syn. 



Habitat. — Colorado ; California. 



The type of villosa should be in the collection of the American 

 Entomological Society; but I have not found it there. The type of 

 pauxillus is in the Tepper collection; a ty])e oi persimilis is in the Brit- 

 ish Museum, and another specimen, also marked " type," is in the Tepper 

 collection. 



