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Galasa palmipes Felder and Rogenhofer. 



Amblyura? palmipes Felder and Rogenhofer, Reise Novara, pi. 137, fig, 23, 



1874. 

 Caphys palmipes Hampson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 679, 1897. 



A c? is figured, large (24 mm.), light red with the lines pale luteous 

 and broad, from the Amazons (Bates). Nothing like it is before me. 

 The specimens from Brazil and Costa Rica in the collection that were 

 labeled with this name are evidently distinct. Unfortunately, nothing is 

 known of the venation of palmipes. 



NOTE ON HEPIALUS AURATUS GROTE 



{Lepidoptera, Hepialida) 

 By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER 



Hiis fine and rare golden Hepialid was first described by A. R. Grote 

 from an example taken in Lewis County (Adirondack Mountziins) by the 

 late W. W. HiU in July, 1877 (Can. Ent.. vol. x, p. 18, 1878). Ten 

 years later Mr. E. P. Van Duzee captured a specimen resting on a wild 

 gooseberry bush toward the close of July, while strolling through a cool 

 shady ravine at Lancaster, near Buffalo, New York (Can. Ent., vol. xx, 

 p. 100, 1888), and five years later Mrs. A. T. Slosson recorded the 

 capture of a specimen taken by her at Lonesome Lake, in the Franconia 

 Mountains, New Hampshire, about 3,000 feet above the sea. She 

 caught her golden prize early in July in the twilight after the sun had 

 gone down (Can. Ent., vol. xxv, p. 260, 1893). Mr. G. Chagnon re- 

 corded taking a specimen of auratus at St. Theresa Island about 3 miles 

 from St. Johns, Quebec, Canada, and another taken by Dr. Fyles in 

 Bromo County, Quebec, in July, 1 865 (Can. Ent., vol. xlv, p. 34, 1913)* 

 Mr. R. F. Pearsall informs me that he captured two males in the Cats- 

 kill Mountains, New York, during July, and these are probably the spec- 

 imens referred to in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 

 vol. viii, p. 6 1 , 1913. While in camp on the summit of the Black 

 Mountains in western North Carolina at an elevation of 6, 7 1 feet, I 

 caught on June 22, 191 I, a fine pair of auratus. My specimens were 

 taken in a clearing in the balsam forest just before dark, fluttering around 

 a small trickling spring. This is the most southern record known for 



