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PSYCHID/E 



Manatha nigrita B. & McD. is the form of Platoeceticus gloveri 

 Pack, making a grass case. Mr. F. M. Jones formerly collected them 

 in Biloxi, Mississippi, but I was unable to sepairate the adults from gloveri 

 and so named them for Mr. Jones. Whether they are properly separa- 

 ble on the cases alone may require further evidence. The name nigrita 

 can be used for the grass case. 



Prochalia p^gmaa B. & McD., described as new genus and species 

 from one male, is the ordinary tree-trunk form of P. gloveri. The vena- 

 lion has no value in these species. I examined five specimens from my 

 series of carhonaria and found no two alike. I could make four more 

 " genera " from them equally as distinct as Prochalia. 



COCHLIDIID/E 



Prolimacodes scapha, subspecies argentimacula B. & McD. My 

 Florida specimens agree. Most scapha in collections are from New 

 York, so that the Florida form seems contrasted. Specimens from the 

 Mississippi Valley and North Carolina are intermediate. A complete 

 series might show the racial name unnecessary. The name scapha falls 

 before badia Hiibner.' 



PYRAUSTIN/E 



Six new forms are described, but only three of them are before me. 

 Of these, Nacoleia havnpsoni and Loxostege albiceralis floridalis were 

 submitted to me for determination by Mr. Kearfott and are apparently 

 correctly described as new. Stenoptycha solanalis B. & McD. is, how- 

 ever, a synonym of S. pterophoralis Walker, and is in the National Mu- 

 seum from Florida, contained in the Schaus collection. 



NYMPHULIN/E 



Piletocera simplicialis B. & McD. is a good species, occurring with 

 P. hufalis Guen. throughout its range. I have both species from Florida. 



straw-yellow, all of fore wing except costa and margins strongly shaded with deep red. 

 Expanse, 32 mm. Cotypes, two females, No. 16053, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Santiago, 

 Cuba, June and October, 1902 (W. Schaus). Besides this species, Mr. Schaus cap- 

 tured both C erosa and C xanthindyma in Cuba. 



' Hiibner figured hadia among his European Noctuidae. At present writing I do not I 

 know his locality. H Florida, the name would preoccupy argentimacula. The name 

 undifera Walker may be deleted from the synonymy of scapha. It is from Honduras 

 and at least racially distinct. 



