NO. 3546 MOTHS OF GENUS EUSCEPTIS — TODD 21 



selected as lectotype. Mr. D. S. Fletcher who made the comparison 

 for me indicates they are the same. 



Name of Undetermined Application 



Eiigraphia splendens f. seriata 



Eugraphia extensa ab. seriata Strand, 1913, Arch. Naturg., vol. 79 (A), nos. 7-9, 



p. 63. [Infrasubspecific, not available.] 

 Eugraphia splendens f. seriata Strand. — Draudt, 1939, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetter- 



linge der Erde, vol. 7, p. 397. 



This name, like paraguayensis, must be credited to Draudt and date 

 from that work. The specimen studied by Strand, a female from 

 Brazil, is in the Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin, Germany, 

 The description of the dark markings of the ventral surface of the 

 hindwing indicates a pattern unlike any example of the splendens 

 group known to me. It is, however, most likely that the type is 

 either an aberrant specimen of extensa or paraguayensis. The 

 description of the dorsal surface of the hindwing agrees with the pattern 

 of maculation of those species. An examination of the nature of the 

 basal part of the ocellate spots of the forewing would indicate to which 

 seriata is related, but would not necessarily indicate it was either 

 particular species. There is, of course, the possibility that it repre- 

 sents a distinct species. Because I have not seen examples that 

 agree with the description, because large areas of Brazil remain 

 practically unknown entomologically, and because the type is officially 

 unavailable to me, I feel obligated to consider seriata as a name of 

 undetermined application. 



Species Transferred to Other Genera 

 Tarachidia bruchi (Breyer), new combination 



Eugraphia bruchi Breyer, 1931, Rev. Soc. Ent. Argentina, vol. 3, p. 309, 



This species, the type of which I have examined through the courtesy 

 of Mr. Pablo Kohler, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is closely related to, 

 but specifically distinct from, Tarachidia viridans Schaus, It is 

 not at all closely related to the species of Eusceptis Hiibner. Recent 

 studies of mine at the British Museum (Natural History) revealed 

 to me that E. bruchi Breyer is the same species described by Hampson 

 as Tarachidia albisecta (1910, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae 

 in the British Museum, vol. 10, p. 689, pi. 169, fig. 22). The Hamp- 

 son name, Tarachidia albisecta, is the correct name for the species. 



