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Plataea calcaria Pears. 



Apicrcna calcaria Pears., 1911, C. Ent. XLIII, 205 ( 9 ). 



Plataea triangulata B. & McD., 1916, Contr. Ill, (1), 27, PI. Ill, 

 Fig. 18. (5). 



The receipt of several more specimens of both sexes from Palm 

 Spgs., Calif., and also of a 5 from Yuma Co., Ariz., convinces 

 us that our triangulata is merely the 2 sex of Pearsall's calcaria 

 of which we have recently examined the type; the sexual difference 

 is striking but the agreement in structure of the two sexes makes 

 the reference certain. We can see no reason for retaining the genus 

 Apicrena Pears. ; the venation is that of Plataea with which genus it 

 also agrees in the shortly pectinate 9 antennae. 



Glaucina puellaria Dyar. (PI. XXII, Figs. 12, 13). 



The types are several 9 's in the National Museum from vari- 

 ous southern Arizona localities ; they appear to be conspecific although 

 a Co-type sent us years ago by Dr. Dyar from Catalina Spgs., Ariz. 

 (Schwarz) represents an entirely different species, being a 9 Syn- 

 glochis perumbraria Hist. ; the 2 i 's mentioned by Dr. Dyar in his 

 description as being doubtfully identical we believe to be something 

 else and, as these are provided with type labels and might lead to con- 

 fusion later, we hereby restrict the type of puellaria to the 9 from 

 S. Arizona, Poling. We believe the species will prove to be synony- 

 mous with escaria Grt. ; the markings and color of primaries agree 

 exactly with a specimen (also from S. Arizona, Poling) which we 

 have compared with the $ type in the Brooklyn Inst.; the under 

 side of both wings shows a broad darkish marginal band in the puel- 

 laria types but we believe this is merely a 9 characteristic. In our 

 Contributions (Vol. Ill (3) 183) we were inclined to associate error- 

 aria Dyar with escaria Grt. but believe now that the species is valid ; 

 at that time our notion of puellaria was taken from the S specimens 

 instead of the true 9 types. Erroraria (PI. XXII, Fig. 14), the 

 type being a 9 from Hot Springs, Ariz. (Schwarz), is very similar 

 to puellaria (escaria) in maculation but the color of primaries is paler, 

 approaching fawn-gray, and the secondaries have a whiter basal area ; 

 the type shows a whitish, subcrenulate s. t. line which is obsolete in 

 the two co-types from Tucson, Ariz. ; we have not yet definitely identi- 

 fied S 's of erroraria. 



