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imicli sons Id lie oiih' (lis! iiii;in.'^li('(l Iroin out iiiii iiala hy tlic ;il)s<'iiC(' of ;i liiiid 

 pair of alidoiiiiiKil Iciis, llicic ln-iiig one cxL-oi'diiiiily rare c.xccjitioii in tlii.s 

 lasi (■haracfer. Il is possililc that the two species were at first seasonal 

 (lirnor[)lis. A. aiiliinnnttti, iio\\fver, according lo j\Ir. ^lann (Proc. Bost. 8oc. 

 Nat. Hist., XV, oS4, IST.'l), does sometimes ap|)ear in the spring, as will lie seen 

 hy the following quotation : "Of 16 dated specimens of the male in my col- 

 l(!ction, 12 were taken in Octolier or Noveml)er. and 4 in I\Iarch or April. The 

 two spring specimens in my collection now are an:ong the most strongly 

 characterized I liave. Of several hundred females in my collection, four were 

 taken in Apiil and the rest in November." 



Mr. Mann describes, in the Proc. Bost. 8oc. Nat. Plist., xvi, w fern ale of 

 this species, which had two al)orted wings and [)eclinated antenna;. 



As this species was wrongly called A. ■vernafa Peck l)y Harris; and as 

 Harris's ponwtiiria, as shown l)y Mr. Mann, is Peck's vcniata, it clearly follows 

 that a new name must l)e projiosed for Harris's " rer?ia/ii'^; I f Iierelbre prop<»se 

 (intumnnta, as it is on the wliol(> an aninmnal si)ecies. 



Anisopteryx vernata Harris.* Plate 11, tig, 2, c?; Plate 13, fig. oD, 

 enlarged twice; larva, PI. 13, fig. (>. 



J'halcma vernata Peck, Mass. Mag., Sept , Oct., :52:3, 415, fig.s. 1-7, 1795. * 



Not Anisopteryx rernata Harris, Iiij. lus. Mass., I{3ti, 1841. 



Anisopteryx poinetaria Harris, luj. Ins. Mass., 3:i3, 1841 ; 3tl ed., 462, figs. 228, 231, 1862. 



Fitch, Third Rep. Nox. Ins. N. Y., 24, 1856. 

 Anisopteryx vernata vnr. immctarUi Pack., Guide Study Insects, phite 8, ligs. 9, 9((, 96, 324, 1869. 

 Anisopteryx vernata Mann, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, :382, 187.3. 

 Anisopteryx pomclaria Manu,t Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 163, 1874. 

 Anisopteryx vernata Mann, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 204, 1874. 

 I'aleavritn nriiata Kiley, Trans. Acad. Sc. St. Lonis, iii, 273, figs. 14-17, 1875. 



20 c?. — Pale ash, body a little darker; head with ollen a slight, trans- 

 verse, darker hair-line across the front just below the antenuiP. Fore wings 

 crosfetl l)y three interrupted blacklines, consisting of costal and venular l)lack 

 dots. Inner line much curved, on the costa foiniing an oblique l>lack spot; 

 the second line varying in position, being near the middle of the wing or ou 

 the inner tliird, and much nearer th(> inner fnu; ; it is straight, olilique on the 

 costa, ami a lillle sinuate ; third line oblique, not sinuate, and deflected on 

 the co.s1a. A slender, black, apical, ()l)lique streak, from which runs a zigzag. 

 ol)scure, JM-oad, whitish line to tiie inner edge; this line is much less distinct 



•Although this species is not the A. rernata of Harris, yet, as he vras the first to place the species 

 iu llic correct giiiins, his name, should lollow tlio scientific name. 



t The "Anisopteryx poinetaria Harris descr." is not A. rtrnata of Maiui. 



