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There can be no doubt but that ausonius is merely a color sport 

 of martialis. The wings having been suffused and the fenestrate spots 

 reclaimed by the scales under conditions which undoubtedly can be 

 supplied in the laboratory but are not likely to occur very often in 

 nature. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS CARIPETA WITH DE- 

 SCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



By Louis W. Swett, 

 Maiden, Mass. 



In studying the genus Caripeta, I came across a strange error in 

 the description and figuring of Caripeta artgustiorata Walker, in 

 Packard's Monograph of the Geometridae. (Vol. X, U. S. Geol. 

 Survey of the Territories, p. 238.) Entomologists in general have 

 regarded, I believe, the insect figured by Packard in this monograph 

 (Plate IX, fig. 52), as the true C. avgustiorata, which I will prove is 

 incorrect. While reading over the description I noticed it did not 

 correspond exactly with the plate and this set me thinking, and I 

 resolved to go over Packard's specimens in the Cambridge Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. To my surprise I found a very different 

 insect from his figure, larger and with yellow streaks on the veins of 

 the forewings, labelled "Smith, Norway, Me." (two specimens). 

 Then I went over the collection carefully but could find no moth 

 like the figure and I thought perhaps the labels had been changed, 

 but I disproved this theory by finding a similar specimen (Packard 

 mentions this in Monograph) in the Minot collection of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, through the kindness of Mr. C. Johnson. 

 Working on these lines I found Strecker's description (Lep. Rhop. 

 Het. Suppl. 2, 9, 1899), of Caripeta seductaria to correspond with 

 Packard's insects, likewise to Walker's description of C. angustiorata. 

 Having some ten specimens of each, that is, of Packard's figure, and 

 his specimens of angustiorata corresponding to seductaria Streck., I 

 sent a few to Sir George Hampson of the British Museum for com- 

 parison with Walker's types. He replied that Strecker's C. seductaria 

 (like specimens in Packard collection at Cambridge), were Walker's 

 C. angustiorata, this making seductaria a synonym of angustiorata. 



