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myself and are now before me: two others were returned to the 

 Museum. All of the examples were from the Koebele material and, I 

 believe, specifically identical. My own examples, therefore, are as 

 much " type " as those at Washington, they formed the basis of both 

 the original description and that of the revision, and the charge that 

 I " misidentified " the species, is therefore absurd. 



Plconcctyptcra tenalis (not fonalis) was originally described from 

 six examples, all from yXrizona desert areas, and three of these, in- 

 cluding the male and female types are now before me. Now the types 

 of teiialis and finitima are so utterly unlike that not the merest tyro 

 would be inclined to associate them, and if the specimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum labelled as finifinia type are really tenalis as Dr. 

 Dyar says, it simply means that there has been a tampering with 

 labels by somebody — a fact that I have been inclined to suspect be- 

 fore as to other species. It is not a matter of two closely allied 

 species, as finitima and scrcna may perhaps be said to be; but of 

 forms so utterly different in size, in color, in maculation and even 

 in wing form, that mere error of association is excluded. 



NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Wm. Barnes, M.D., and J. McDunnough, Ph.D., 

 Decatur, III. 



Family LITHOSIAN^. 



Agylla septentrionalis, new species. 



Palpi, front, antennae and tegulae bright orange; patagia and thorax white: 

 abdomen dorsally gray, ventrally orange ; legs orange, tarsi and half of tibia; 

 of first two pairs gray ; primaries silvery white, costal edge blackish at base : 

 secondaries slightly tinged with fuscous. Beneath, primaries smoky ; costal 

 edge tinged with orange in central portion ; secondaries white, slightly fus- 

 cous along costa. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Chiricahua Mts., Ariz. l ?. Type Coll. Barnes. 

 This is the first Agylla species recorded from the United States. 

 According to Hampson (Cat. Lep. Het., II) it appears to be closest 



