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Alabama argillacea Hiibner. 



Smith (Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 243, 1893) gives an outline of 

 the synonymy and bibliography and refers to full accounts of the same. 

 This is the well-known cotton worm moth, which in certain years migrates 

 far to the north in large numbers in the fall of the yecu:. This was nota- 

 bly the case in 1911 and to a less extent this year (1912), though the 

 phenomenon had not been previously v^tnessed for many years. The 

 larva feeds on cotton in our southern States. Specimens are before me 

 from Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa F^ca, Mexico, Barbados, and Cuba, 

 and from the United States to the Canadian border, even from Ontario, 

 Canada. 



Cosmophila erosa Hiibner. 



This species is distributed from Argentina to our southern States, 

 Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri, and along the Atlantic coast 

 as far as Washington, D. C. The larva feeds on Urena lohata, A hu- 

 tilon avicenna, and Malva rotundifolia, according to Riley. The spe- 

 cies occurs also in the Old World, being treated by Hampson in the 

 " Moths of India." A specimen is before me from New ZeeJand, bred 

 from Hibiscus. The Old World form tends to have darker hind wings 

 than ours, some being quite blackish, but the New Zealand specimen is 

 not darker than one from Paraguay before me. Synonymy is given in 

 Staudinger and Rebel's catalogue (Catalog der Lepid. des Palaearctischen 

 Faunengebietes, 234, 1901) and American references by Smith (Bull. 

 44, U.S. Nat. Mus., 241, 1893). 



Gonitis edetrix Guenee. 



Gonitis edetrix Guen6e, Spec. Gen. Lep., vi, 404, 1852. 



This very characteristically marked species extends from Brazil to 

 Mexico, including Peru, Venezuela, Cuba, and Bermuda. I have two 

 specimens taken in Japan (Yokohama, H. Loomis), but this perhaps rep- 

 resents an accidental importation, since the species is not recorded in 

 Staudinger and Rebel's catalogue. 



Gonitis hedys, new species. 



Fore wing rosy brown, thickly irrorated vsath blackish ; inner line 

 pale, oblique, and parallel to lower half of outer line, somewhat irregular ; 

 a small black dot in cell ; reniform narrow, constricted, blackish ; outer 

 line pale, outcurved over cell, dislocated inward between veins 5 and 6, 



