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ness because I have no Labrador examples of phoca at hand now and 

 cannot compare the photograph that I had of the type ; but I am by 

 no means agreed that the two are even probably the same. 



Lasionycia Hampson, differs from Lasiestra in having the tTiorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, while in the latter genus the 

 clothing is entirely hairy. This difference I considered as authorizing 

 only groups in my genus Scotogranuna, and several of my species of 

 that genus find a place here : iticoncinna, conjugata, siibfusciila and 

 sedilis. These are all congeneric ; but with them are associated 

 Maviestra raiiiierii and arietis and Xylomiges ochracea. The first may 

 belong here ; I have no specimens for comparison, and had only a 9 

 for description : the last I would not have thought of putting here, 

 though it fits better, perhaps, than in Xylomiges. The change in the 

 synonymy of what we have known aa insolens, is unexpected. Mr. 

 Grote himself said that his arietis was the S' of his insoletis, and that 

 was never before doubted. That Mr. Morrison's species carina was 

 the same as insolens was pretty general knowledge before I made the 

 reference. Hampson now claims that Grote really had two good 

 species before him and places arietis in Lasionycia while insolens goes 

 into Folia. He was good enough to send me a cJ* specimen of arietis, 

 and there is no doubt but that it is different from the single S' that I 

 had under insolens. Unfortunately, material in this species has always 

 been very scarce with me, hence I can say nothing of the generic sepa- 

 ration. The two species certainly look very similar. 



And now comes a list of over 200 species referred to Polia under 

 which 16 generic names are cited as synonyms. The genus includes 

 a large proportion of the species which stand as Mamestra in our lists 

 and, in general, the synonymy is as in these lists. Mamestra crydina 

 Dyar, is cited as a synonym to AT. piirpurissata Grt., but that is an 

 error. Dr. Dyar described his form as a variety only, and as Hamp- 

 son recognizes no varieties, the citation was justified under his rules. 

 But crydina is really a very good species, abundantly distinct from 

 purpurissata in structural and ornamental characters. I had an odd 

 specimen separated out for a long time before Dyar described, and the 

 recent receipt of additional, good examples, fully justifies the separa- 

 tion. It may be added that I saw no examples of crydina in the Brit- 

 ish Museum collection, so that Sir George had no opportunity to judge 

 of the standing of the name. 



Mamestra fiisciilenta Smith is placed as a synonym of crotclii Grt. 



