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wholly to artificial conditions. Dr. Watson's specimen must have emerged 

 from a chilled pupa. The form is interesting only in that it shows what 

 abnormal conditions may do to a " perfectly good bug." 



Tetanolita greta Smith. 



A study of ten specimens in my own collection shows that the lateral 

 bristles of the male antennae are quite strong, somewhat more so than in 

 palligera, which is the only species I have at hand for compcirison. The 

 inferior tufts are long, nearly equalling the lateral bristles. The antenna! 

 tuft is large, the heiirs long, scarcely appressed, in some specimens having 

 a tendency to become erect. 



Alar expanse, 23-25 mm. March to August. 



Taeniocampa occluna Smith. 



The type of this species is a male taken by Professor Cockerell in 

 New Mexico, May 9, 1 900. Professor Smith says in a note that the 

 specimens stood in his cabinet for nearly nine years awaiting additional 

 material. Now the " additional material " was furnished by Mr. Geo. 

 Field from San Diego, Cal. Upon receiving this material Professor 

 Smith described the species, labeled two specimens as cotypes, and re- 

 turned them to Mr. Field. One of these cotypes is now in my collection. 



An examination of the date labels shows that the species flies in May, 

 September, October, and November, evidently not in large numbers, as 

 eight yecirs of collecting has only produced five specimens for my cabi- 

 net. Females expand 30 mm. 



A NOTE ON PHOBOLOSIA AND MELANOMMA 



{Lefndoptera, Noctuidat) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Phoholosia Dyar was described in the Arctiidae, but lately placed 

 in the Noctuidae, subfamily Acronyctinae, by Hampson. The type spe- 

 cies is without metallic sceJes, but others, since discovered, exhibit such 

 scales on wings or abdomen, suggesting very much the genus Mela- 

 nomma Grote. I give below a list of the known species. 



Melanomma Grote was described in the Geometridae, but later re- 

 ferred to the Noctuidae (Can. Ent., xxx, 257, 1898). In Bulletb 52, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., it was placed in the " pseudodeltoids." According to 



