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The species belongs in the same section with phasma Dyar, the 

 frontal prominence being distinctly blade-shaped and the corneous 

 plate with small lateral projections. The very oblique nature of the 

 t. a. line and the point of origin of the t. p. line near apex are char- 

 acteristic features. 



NYMPHULINAE 

 Cataclysta (Elophila) fulicalis Clem. 



In reading over Dr. Dyar's recent Notes on N. Am. Nymphulidae 

 (1917, Ins. Ins. Menstr. V, 75) we noted that Dyar's conceptions of 

 fulicalis Clem, and conftisalis Wlk. seemed to be just the reverse of our 

 own and a recent visit to Washington confirmed this opinion ; the 

 series in the museum under fulicalis is what we have called confusalis 

 Wlk. based on a specimen which we had compared with the type {vide 

 Contr. II, (5) p. 215) ; the type of fulicalis is not labelled as such at 

 Philadelphia but the series under this name, which very possibly 

 includes the type specimen, is certainly not fulicalis of Dr. Dyar ; 

 Clemens' description is fortunately very clear; he distinctly mentions 

 the narrow dark line on the secondaries which Dr. Dyar claims is 

 absent, and in his description of the primaries states that the oblique 

 ochreous band is margined along the discal nervure on both sides with 

 fuscous, no mention being made of a discal spot ; there seems therefore 

 little doubt that fulicalis Dyar is confusalis Wlk. and confusalis Dyar 

 equals fulicalis Clem. Regarding Lederer's species cited by Dr. Dyar 

 in the synonymy, we prefer to say nothing as without a definite knowl- 

 edge of the type specimens neither his descriptions nor his figures 

 can be of much use; we might note, however, that Lederer himself 

 was inclined to associate his opulentalis with fulicalis Clem, and not his 

 angulatalis; if Dr. Dyar's references are correct angulatalis will have 

 priority over confusalis Wlk.; the type of angulatalis is a single S 

 from the Kaden Coll. but we have no record as to where this collection 

 now is; the Felder Coll. which should contain the types of opulentalis 

 is at Tring Museum but we do not know whether these particular 

 types still exist in it. 



HyDROPIONEA FENESTRALIS B. & McD. 



Dr. Dyar has referred this species to Clupeosoma but Sir Geo. 

 Hampson informs us that the correct genus is Hydropionea Hamp. 

 (1917, Am. Mag. N. Hist. (80) XX, p. 275) ; a comparison of the 



