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pectinated antennre falling under Syssaura Hiib. and the former with 

 simple pubescent autennte in the % , being by Mr. Warren put under 

 Drepanodes. Mr. Warren says the species of Syssaura have elon- 

 o-ate fore wings, and short, straight pectinations of the % antennae, 

 while the species of Patalene have fully pectinated antenna and less 

 falcate fore wings. Whether these distinctions will hold good I 

 cannot say. They seem scarcely distinctive. Siculata is placed by 

 Guenee under the first group {Drepanodes^, but as he had only the 

 $ , and as I also have no % ,1 am unable to verify the correctness 

 of the reference. It is quite likely not Syssaura in the above sense, 

 as the antennje of the $ are filiform not serrate, and the fore wings 

 decidedly falcate. 



Species. — S. siculata Guen. 



S. syzyciyaria Hulst. 



S. infensata Guen. 



102. CABERODES Guen. 

 Phal. i, 135. 1857. 



Type confusaria Hiib. 



Palpi moderate, subascending, rough scaled ; tongue strong ; front 

 scaled, scarcely tufted ; antennse of % bipectinate, apex simple, of 

 % serrate; thorax scaled, slightly hairy, hairy below; abdomen 

 scaled ; hind tibiae slightly swollen, without hair pencil, with all 

 spurs ; fore wings rounded or very slightly angulate, without fovea 

 below, 12 veins (in one specimen 13), 10 and 11 from cell, stemmed 

 together at base ; hind wings rounded or slightly angulate, 5 unde- 

 veloped, 6 and 7 separate, 8 separate from cell. 



The genus is scarcely to be separated from Metanema Guen. Mr. 

 Warren, giving the synonymy, says it is the same with Apicia Guen., 

 which it is not, as Apicia has hair pencil in S . Then Mr. Warren 

 refers the term Caberodes for the first species described by Guenee, 

 and puts the American species under Eumrca Hub. as Hiibner de- 

 " scribed confusaria under that generic name. But in his description 

 of Caberodes Guenee gives the structure of the males, and also gives 

 a description of the larva. Of the species to which Mr. Warren 

 would refer Caberodes Guenee says he had the 9 only, and did not 

 know the I , nor the larva. The I described is confusaria, and the 

 larva is the larva of confusaria. Caberodes cannot in anywise be 

 therefore referred to anything but confusaria. With regard to 

 Ensarca in the Exot. Schmet., there is no pretense to binomial no- 

 menclature, and no generic names can be taken from what is de 

 scriptive merely. Hiibuer's first use of the term in anything like 



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