234 ZYG^NID^ AND BOMBYCIDiE 



ALYPIA LUNATA. (Page 15.) 



Having recently had an opportunity of examining the type of Grote's 

 A. Mariposa in the collection of the Central Park, New York, it form- 

 ing a part of the collection of the late Coleman Robinson, Esq. , I am 

 of the opinion that A. lunata must be placed as a variety of A. Mari- 

 posa. In this opinion I am confirmed by the circumstance that my 

 typical specimen was obtained from Mr. Lorquin ; and as it has been 

 evidently captured many years since, it is more than probable that it 

 was taken at the same time and in the same locality as the specimens 

 which Mr. Lorquin's father forwarded to Dr. Boisduval, who furnished 

 Mr. Grote with the specimen from which his figure was drawn, and to 

 which reference is made above. The most striking difference is in the 

 spot on the apical half of the primaries. The synonymy of this species 

 will thus be : 



Alypia mariposa, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vol. i, pi. 6, fig. 

 40. (i868.) 



Agarista mariposa, Boisduval, Bull. Ent. Soc. Belgique, 



Var. Alypia liinata, Stretch, Z. and B. N. Am. vol. i, p. 15, pi. i, 

 fig. 6. (1872.) 



PSYCHOMORPHA EPIMENIS. (Page 17.) 



The following description of the larva, and notes on its habits, are 

 extracted from the ist, 2nd, and 3d Reports of the State Entomolo- 

 gist of Missouri (C. V. Riley). The larva is figured in ist Report, 

 pi. I, fig. 19, and also in 3d Report, p. 63, fig. 25, a, b, and c. The 

 former figure is erroneously referred to in the text as the larva, o^ Alypia 

 odomaculata, which error is corrected in the second Report, p. 84. In 

 this place, the larva is conjectured to be and figured as that of Eudryas 

 unio, but this supposition proved likewise to be incorrect. The ques- 

 tion was finally determined by raising the imago from these larvae. The 

 near relationship of Eudryas, Psychomorpha, and Alypia is proved by 

 nothing more conclusively than by the wonderful similarity of their 



