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The species is closely allied to sabulosa Hy. Edw. but differs 

 among other things in the more contrasted maculation, especially the 

 pale median area and the white markings around reniform; sabulosa 

 is listed at present in the genus Cissusa Wlk. (type, spadix Cram.) 

 but cannot stay there on account of the scaly nature of the thoracic 

 vestiture; for the present we place both species in Syneda and must 

 await Sir Geo. Hampson's revision of the Erebin'ae (Noctuinae) for 

 the correct location. 



Syneda tejonica Behr. (PI. XIX, Figs. 5, 6). 



A good deal of confusion exists concerning the identity of this 

 species, described in 1870 (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. Ill, 26) from three 

 species from Ft. Tejon, Calif., which locality we have recently discov- 

 ered to be in San Bernardino Co. The description, mainly in Latin, 

 is not very lucid and the fact that the types are destroyed does not 

 tend to improve the situation ; however, there is one feature of the 

 diagnosis which eliminates practically all of our identified Synedas 

 from consideration, viz, that Behr distinctly states that the under side 

 of all wings is -ivhitc (subtus alae omnes candidae) more or less tinged 

 with orange; the only two species known to us to which this could 

 possibly apply are Drastcria mirifica Hy. Edw. and the species listed 

 as Syneda perfecta Hy. Edw. A foot note by Behr further elucidates 

 the situation as he states that "the species varies in the coloration of 

 the hind wings, which are, in two specimens, nearly white with only 

 a slight orange tinge about disc and margin." This at once eliminates 

 mirifica and points strongly towards perfecta as it is well-known that 

 the S 's of this species have the secondaries largely white whilst in 

 the $ 's they are orange. We have before us a series of specimens 

 from Loma Linda, San Bernardino, Co., Calif., which complies with 

 Behr's diagnosis in every respect, showing the pale violet median and 

 terminal areas of primaries, the white wings in S and the orange 

 ones in 9 and the white under side in both sexes, although we might 

 note that in the 9 the orange suffusion is at times extended so as 

 to almost cover the entire wings ; we believe without question that 

 these represent the true tejonica Behr. As compared with perfecta Hy. 

 Edw. they are so close that we should hesitate to even give the two 

 names racial value ; however, as the name perfecta was based on Ari- 



