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T. atrifascialis, Hulst, (Tetralopha), Trans. Amer. Ento. Soc, 



XIII, 160, 1SS6; {Tallula), Ento. Am.. IV, 115, 1888. 

 l-'xpands, 18 to 22 mm. Palpi white, Ijlack at ends ; head, thorax and antennae 

 June white, u-ith some black scales intermixed ; thorax with three black spots poster- 

 iorly ; lore wings pure white, more or less heavily mixed with black scales, giving a 

 snowy cinereous aspect ; a black costal spot at base ; the first line black, broad at 

 cosia, then constricted nearly or quite separated at middle, then broadeniu'j; to margin, 

 loUowing inner margin to base in a fuscous shade ; outer line white, sinuous, lined 

 within with fuscous ; a large, black, costal, apical triangle ; black points on either 

 side of outer line on inner margin ; a marginal line of black dashes ; fringe white, 

 interlined brokenly with black ; hind wings light fuscous, black marginal line ; fringe 

 as fore wings ; beneath, fuscous on fore wings and anterior margin of hind wings ; 

 fringe as above. Abdomen cinereous, annulate with fuscous. 



Southern Slates and Texas. October. 



On ])age 47, loth line from the bottom, there is an important error, 

 "coalescing of 10 and 11," should be "8 and 9." And on page 45, 

 yih line from the top, ''Oneida hmulalis" should be ''Yuma adulaialis.'" 



Tetralopha enthealis, Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, does not belong 

 here. The type is a female, and is probably a synonym of Aglossa 

 dumalis, Guen. , though very decidedly differing in shape of wings from 

 all females of that species I have seen. 



It may be that Mr. Walker has described some of our species in the 

 Iiriiish Museum Catalogue. But so far, no way has presented itself by 

 which I could make reliable comparison with Walker's types, and no- 

 thing can be determined from the descriptions. 



In the introductory part of this article I have shown that in the most 

 of respects the Epipaschiime find correspondences among the Pliycitidce. 

 The principal and almost only material point in which there seemed to 

 be a distinction was in the frenulum, which in the 9 ^^ ^^^ Epipasch- 

 iince is double, while in the PhyciiidcB it is single. I had fell certain that 

 even this was not absolute in view of the peculiar formation of the fren- 

 ulum in the 9 of^ the Pliycitidce, but at the time of writing was able to 

 give no proof Among the Pliycitidce the (^ has the single heavy spine; 

 the 9 als^5 has one spine but it consists of two, or more generally, 3 or 

 4 joined together. This is very evident at the base where the separate 

 sockets are easily seen, and there is morever a flatness and waviness of 

 the basal portiou to correspond. After the examination of various spe- 

 cimens I have at last found an undoubted 9 Anerastia tetradella, Zell., 

 in which the frenulum is divided to the base, and is therefore double as 

 in the Epipascliiime. 



In aildition I have made some comparative ol)scrvations on the 

 females of the Epipaschiinte and Pliycitidce. So little has been said (if 

 anything at all) upon the genitalia of the females in any family that I 



