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justice. It is much better placed here than where I had left it in the 

 Tgeniocampid series. 



Polia stenotis Hampson is a new species from California out of the 

 Walsingham material. Sir George was good enough to send me an 

 examp'.e out of the type series and soon afterward I received a small 

 series of examples from Stockton, Utah, dated October 2 and 3. The 

 species is a very distinct one. 



Polia stricta Wlk., receives in addition to cinnabarina Grt., and 

 ferrea Grt., my species circumcincta as a synonym. Dr. Dyar had 

 just previously placed the same name into the synonymy of oUvacea 

 and as both these authorities agree that stricta and olivacea are dis- 

 tinct, one of them must be wrong in referring circumcincta. Under 

 the circumstances I prefer to hold my species as distinct, first because 

 I believe it to be so, and second because I do not believe either of the 

 two gentlemen have the true circiuncincta. The type is in my own 

 collection ; the species is certainly not in the British Museum and as'' 

 I described from a single pair out of the Edwards collection, retaining 

 the male and returning the female, the other type should be in the 

 American Museum of Natural History. I would further suggest that 

 I figured the male genitalia of all the forms and while these might 

 authorize Hampson's reference, they never could by any possibility 

 authorize Dyar's. 



Under Polia olivacea Morr., all the forms described by me in 

 1 90 1 appear as synonyms, and in addition M. comis Grt., and Celcena 

 hamara Druce. As to the latter I have no opinion, since I did not 

 compare the type. As to the others I am quite willing to let them 

 take their chance of a future existence ; some of them are races almost 

 surely ; others, including comis, are very good species. 



Polia secedens Wlk,, is the species that we have so long had as 

 Anaria secedens and which was originally described as a Plnsia. The 

 yellow secondaries and general habitus go far toward justifying the 

 original reference and the species is another of those Hudson's Bay 

 forms that are so generally lacking in our American collections. 



The genus Hadena Schrank, as used by Hampson, contains only 

 one American species, procinctus Grt., which stands in our lists as 

 Dargida Wlk. The Mexican gratninivora is very similar in appear- 

 ance, as noted in my catalogue, but abundantly distinct. 



TJiolera Hbn., replaces Nenronia Hbn., and my americana remains 

 our sole representative. 



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