AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 2G1 



Dr. Speyer at some length records the difference between my Angu- 

 lata and Umbra and regards them as different. Why, if our Experi- 

 mens is Umbra, is it that this variety does not occur in Europe? I do 

 not understand the grounds upon which Mr. Smith calls Angulata a 

 variety of Umbra, and they are not stated satisfactorily. I had also two 

 or three Rufimedia and they looked very different from my Texan Mes- 

 keana. I do not feel certain that they are the same, but if any error 

 has happened it can be easily detected ; certainly Mr. Smith should know 

 with Mr. Hulst's type specimen before him and I am willing to accept 

 the fact. I compared Mr. Hulst's species with Meskeana and thought 

 it different. Specimens (types) of both are in B. M. coll. So far as 

 the species go, the above will explain my divergencies from Mr. Smith's 

 views which are slight or rather, since he adopts the most, the debate- 

 able points* between us may be said to be few. Following Staudinger, I 

 have only adopted as named varieties forms equivalent to what he calls 

 varieties in the European fauna. Where the name only expresses a slight 

 change and one of the usual form of the species, I put it as a synonym 

 in italics. With regard to the genera Mr. Smith does not include my 

 Oxycnemis advena or Rhodosea Julia, which are valid genera in my 

 opinion. I think, when Mr. Smith knows them, he will share my views; 

 he probably did not know of their publication. 



RHODOSEA, Gr. 



Eyes full, naked, unlashed ; anterior tibiae shortened, with a longer 

 inner and shorter outer terminal claw, else not spinose ; front very bulg- 

 ing; infra-clypeal plate pronounced, exceeded by the third joint of the 

 palpi ; tibiae unarmed, and this character separates the moth from Alaria. 

 The wings are elongate, shaped as in Hdioplula somewhat, but apices 

 bluut and rather narrow ; vestiture hairy ; antennae simple. The moth 

 is our most beautiful Heliothid. The wings are entirely of a dead pink, 

 like that of Florida, with a longitudinal yellow discal dash, and marked 

 at base with yellow and with yellow fringe and edges to the primaries ; 

 hind wings pale, with faint dusky border ; head and legs and thorax in 

 front flushed with pink ; thorax behind yellow ; beneath the primaries 

 are clouded centrally with fuscous, with the discal streak repeated ; costal 

 region and apices rosy. Expands 36 millim. 



1. Julia, Gr. — New Mexico. 



i -ichm M -.nts. Gr. 



The essential characters of this genus are the form of tibial armature 

 and the posterior thoracic tuft. The genus is first discarded, then adopted 

 by Mr. Smith, with the observation that my description (which he copies 



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