102 INSECUTOR INSCITI/E MENSTRUUS 



Form nerinalis Walker. 



Desmia nerinalis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xix, 928, 1857. 



Very similar to reconditalis, in fact scarcely distinguishable, but the 

 two forms are at the extreme ends of the range of the species. The white 

 half-line of the hind wing of the c? is broader than in reconditalis, and 

 the inner white spots of fore wing are somewhat larger. 



Castro, Parana, Brazil (Schaus collection). 



NOTICE OF VOLUME II, NO. 4, OF BARNES AND 

 McDUNNOUGH'S "CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 

 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 

 NORTH AMERICA" 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



This number contains descriptions of " apparently " new Lepidoptera, 

 taken on a trip to southern Florida. Mr. J. A. Grossbeck was also in 

 this expedition, and is preparing a general list of the material, having 

 enlisted the assistance of Mr. W. D. Kearfott in the Pyralidae. Our 

 authors, in their haste, as I suppose, to anticipate any new species that 

 might possibly have been described by these gentlemen, have issued the 

 present paper. Many subjects have not been carefully considered, and 

 we have been inflicted with an unusually large proportion of needless 

 synonymy. Fortunately, at the time of the receipt of this paper, Mr. 

 Grossbeck was in Washington with material from his Florida collec- 

 tions. This he kindly allowed me to examine in connection with the 

 Barnes & McDunnough paper, so that I have been able to recognize 

 about half of the forms described. It has seemed to me worth while to 

 notice this paper, as I am in a position to correct a certain proportion of 

 the errors into which the authors have fallen. 



NOLID/E 



Celama obliquata B. & McD. is Nola laguncularia Dyar, a true 

 Nolo, not a Celama, as Mr. Grossbeck's material verifies. Hampson 

 made laguncularia a synonym of apera Druce, but there are certziin dif- 

 ferences apparent. 



NOCTUID/E 



Acidaliodes eoides B. & McD. This belongs to Pseudocraspedia 

 Hampson, not to Acidaliodes, and appears to be but a fresh specimen 



