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make the reference fairly certain ; we might note that the discal dot 

 varies considerably in size in the three specimens we possess from San 

 Bernardino Co., Calif. 



EuPiTHECiA cLASsicATA Pears. (syn. E. penumbrata Pears.) (PI. 

 XXII, Fig. 8). 

 The species classicata was described from a single male from 

 the Huachuca Mts., Ariz., the type being now in the Coll. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist, ex Coll. Grossbeck ; penumbrata was described several years 

 later as a Eucymatoge from two specimens, a 9 from Palmerlee, Ariz., 

 the Holotype, which is also in the Am. Mus. Coll. ex Coll. Pearsall 

 and a S from Redington, Ariz., in the Barnes Coll labelled "Co-type," 

 which we figure. The type of classicata is in very poor condition, but 

 as far as can be told represents a rather dwarfed $ of penumbrata; 

 Mr. F. Watson has kindly examined the venation of the type for us 

 and reports that, although somewhat torn at this point by the spread- 

 ing needle, the specimen appears to show two accessory cells, which 

 would throw it into Eucymatoge as defined by Hulst. Pearsall evi- 

 dently later considered the two names to be synonyms as the type 

 of penumbrata bears a label in his handwriting "Is this a synonym of 

 E. classicata?" and a "Yes" written diagonally across it; our own 

 comparison of our Co-type with the types in New York failed to 

 show any definite points of distinction, and we beheve the above syn- 

 onymy should be accepted; the species however, according to Mr. 

 Prout, is better placed in the genus Eupitliecia, belonging to a small 

 group with double accessory cell, which includes atiticaria Wlk. and 

 graefi Hist. 



Eucymatoge spermaphaga Dyar. 



This recently described species (1917, Insec. Ins. Menstr., V, 68) 

 is apparently the one listed by the Rev. G. VV. Taylor as togata Hbn. 

 (1909, C. Ent., XLI, 428). The larva of this European species has 

 similar food-plants to that of spermaphaga, viz. the cones of various 

 pine and fir species, and it will be interesting to determine whether 

 any specific differences exist sufficient to warrant the retention of 

 Dyar's name. As to the generic reference Dyar has probably fol- 

 lowed Hulst who cites togata as the type of Eucymatoge ; European 

 authorities (Rebel, Prout., etc.), however, agree that the presence of 

 a double areole on the primaries is not of generic value in this case 

 and the species should be listed under Eupitliecia. 



