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the name scposita Hy. Edw. but this is apparently only a race with 

 slightly yellower secondaries and rather more brown shades on pri- 

 maries of $ sex. 



In southern Manitoba we meet with a race (PI. XIX, Figs. 9, 10) 

 of the same species which is characterized by the pale gray color of 

 primaries and by the obsolescence of the maculation in the 9 sex, 

 the primaries at times being almost uniform gray; the s. t. line of 

 primaries is also generally not so markedly crenulate and the color of 

 secondaries is a pale ivory; just as in the type form the median 

 pale band may or may not show brown shading outwardly. We pro- 

 pose for this race the name heathi, our type series (2 3,3 $ ) 

 having been captured at Cartwright, Man. (June) by the late Mr. 

 E. F. Heath; we have other specimens from Winnipeg and Miniota, 

 Man., and from various Saskatchewan localities. 



HYPAENINAE 



Hemeroplanis scopulaepes Haw. 



Sir Geo. Hampson has called our attention to the genus Scopelo- 

 pus Steph. (1830, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. HI, p. 124), erected for the 

 species inops Steph. which name Stephens proposed to replace scopu- 

 laepes Haw. ( 1809, Brit. Ent. No. 260) ; stating that the species is 

 probably a native of Georgia and erroneously included among the 

 British Lepidoptera by Haworth ; from the generic and specific descrip- 

 tions there seems no doubt but that the name was applied to what 

 is now listed as Pleonectyptera pyralis Hbn. which names, both generic 

 and specific, will have to fall. Apparently, however, both Scopclopus 

 Steph. and Pleonectyptera Grt. are synonyms of Hemeroplanis Hbn. 

 (1816, Zutr., I, 23, Fig. 127; 1825, Verz. p. 259) based on the single 

 species pyralis Hbn. {pyraloides Hbn.) The generic name Hemero- 

 planis has probably been sunk as a homonym of Hemcroplanes Hbn. 

 (1820, Verz. p. 133) ; we believe according to the latest rulings that 

 both names are valid but in any case Hemeroplanis Hbn. has priority 

 as the whole Vol. I of the Zutrage was completed in 1818 and the plate 

 containing Hemeroplanis pyralis was probably issued in 1816; generic 

 names based on figures in the Zutrage are considered by some authors 

 as non descr. but Rule 79 of Banks and Caudell's Code distinctly per- 

 mits of their acceptance and we see no reason for not following this. 



