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The species should therefore stand as follows : 

 Hyphantria. Harris. 



CuNEA, Drury. (Bomby.x). 



Functatisshna, Abbot »t Smith. (Phalti-na). 

 /'Budea, Hiibner. (Cycnia). 

 Mutans, Walker. {Spiloso7na). 

 Punctata, Fitch. {Hyphaittria). 

 Ab. var. Pallida, Packard. (Arctia). 

 Textor, Harris. (Arctia). 



? Qandida, Walker. (Sfjilosoiiha). 

 I have referred Catidida Walker doubtfully as a synonym of Textor, as it is impossible to 

 be sure that the type was not merely an immaculate Cmnea, unless it could be shown to have 

 come from a locality where Textor occurs and Cunea does not. 



Figure 12 on the plate is shown as agreeing with almost absolute exactness with Drury's 

 figure of Gunea, and Figure 23 as the nearest specimen to the very aberrant type of Arctia Pall- 

 Ida Pack, which I have been able to obtain. Sir George Hampson, in Vol. Ill of his work on 

 the moths of the world, refers to Hyphantria the species described by Grote a,fi A kxicles Aspersa, 

 but as he admits the species is unknown to him, I consider the reference at least doubtful. 



In the following summary I have endeavored to classify the individuals of the different 

 broods, but any such classiti cation is artificial, and merely approximate, as they merge by the 

 slightest possible gradations from one extreme to the other. 



Summary. 



Before concluding, I desire to acknowledge the kindness of Dr. Dyar, not only in supplying 

 me with the necessary eggs and larv!« of Cxnert,, but also in carrying on similar experiments at 

 Washington, breeding over 600 moths, the results of which I am permitted to give in the 

 annexed Appendix, and which tend to confirm my conclusions. 



T may also say that I learned through Dr. Dyar that Mr. Theodore Pergande liad, from his 

 own observations, become convinced that there were two species, the one varying from spotted 

 to white, and the other always white, but differing in the larval state, just as my experiments 

 have shown that they do. 



To be the means of proving the correctness of a name given by Dr. Harris, for whom I 

 have such a profound respect, is a source of gratification. 



