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in her breeding cage as compared with out-door conditions. Our 

 types ( S and 9 ) are both of the yellow-winged form ; we do not 

 care to propose a name for the red-winged one, as both occur equally 

 frequently in nature in all the forms of oniata; we also have specimens 

 from the vicinity of San Diego which show the lining on the veins as 

 in achaia G. & R. as well as the sub-basal band of hczvletti, an addi- 

 tional proof, if necessary, that in Southern California we find a race 

 of ornata with normally well-developed sub-basal band. 



Pygarctia eglenensis Clem. 



This species has generally been considered to be the same as inop- 

 inatus Hy. Edw. and placed by Hampson and Dyar in the genus Am- 

 malo Wlk. A careful reading of Clemens prefatory remarks to this 

 species (1860, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Phil. pp. 532-3) shows that the 

 anterior tibia terminates "in front in a rather long curved spine" which 

 at once precludes the present association. We therefore in our recent 

 list transferred eglenensis Clem, to Pygarctia and left inopinatus Hy. 

 Edw. as the correct name for eglenensis Auct. ; we have not yet identi- 

 fied the species. 



Halisdota davisi Hy. Edw. 



In our list we placed this as a synonym of cinctipes Grt. but agree, 

 after seeing the type, with Rothschild (Nov. Zool. XVI, 282) and 

 Dyar (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XLII, 52) that it should be treated as 

 a good species ; it is readily recognized by the paucity of the macula- 

 tion of primaries which is usually reduced to the costal and discal 

 spots. Dr. Dyar considers it an offshoot of undenvoodi Roths, but 

 we can hardly concur with this ; to us it would seem to be more prob- 

 ably an immaculate form of schausi, the ground color being similar 

 in both species. Dr. Dyar lists the true cinctipes (which is a Cuban 

 species) from S. Florida (Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc. IV, 452) ; we have 

 seen no Florida material of the typical form, our only Miami speci- 

 men being a small, rather faintly marked S , apparently closer to 

 schausi insidaris Roths, than to typical cinctipes; however the occur- 

 rence of the typical form there is very probably and in any case our 

 material is far too scanty to warrant any definite statements regarding 

 this extremely puzzling group. 



