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 very rightly; and having the types before me, I also so consider G. per- 

 sonaria Hy. Edw., the same species, 



Gorytodes trilinearia Pack. (Proc. Post. Soc. N, H., XVI, 24, 1874.) 

 Having Mr. Grote's type of G. dulcearia, (B'kl. Bull., Ill, 46, 1880,) 

 before me, J am not able to separate it from Dr. Packard's species above. 

 Grote's type has considerable of an ochreous coloring, but all males have 

 more or less of that tint; the females of the species are lighter colored, 

 with more diffuse markings, and with little or no ochreous tendency. 



Lepiodes scolopacinaria Guen. (Phal, II, 359, 360,) 

 This insect has since the time of Guenee remained unidentified in 

 American collections ; after a careful study of the description of the 

 genus, I have come to the conclusion that it can be none other than 

 Tornos, Morrison ; and after a like study of the species, I feel certain that 

 Guenee's insect is the species known as rubiginosarms Morrison, Proc. 

 Host. Soc. N. H., XVI, 218, 1875, typical form. Lepidopterists have 

 undoubtedly been misled by the fact that Guenee placed the genus just 

 after Eupithecia. Mr. Morrison in describing, placed the insect among 

 the Noctuidce. 



Lepiodes escaria (lit. (Can. Ent., XIV, 186, 1882.) 

 I have before me the types ol' all of Mr. Grote's later species, viz.; 

 L. escaria, intefruptaria, ochrofuscaria, eupitkeciaria and pygmeolaria, and 

 these in thirty or forty specimens I have compared carefully. As a 

 result, I am forced to the conclusion that L. pygmeolaria is a synonym of 

 L. escaria, differing in nothing but size. This variation is very great, 

 from 19 to 31 mm., but the specimens before me lie indiscriminately 

 between the two extremes. 



Lepiodes interruptaria Grt. (Can. Ent,, XIV, 185, 1882.) 

 This seems to be a good species, but the interrupted cross lines are 

 not specific, as there is every intergradation. The outer cross line seems 

 however to be much more oblique than in L. escaria, and the fore- 

 wings are with a more rounded inner angle, and the inner margin very 

 much more rounded. L. ochrofuscaria I consider a not very strongly 

 marked color variety of this species. 



Lepiodes approximaria Pack. (Mon. Geonv, p. 215, pi. 9, i". 40, 1876.) 

 Of this I consider Z. infumataria Grt. , (Can. Ent., IX, 90, 1877), 

 a synonym. There is, so far as 1 am able to determine, no difference 

 whatever between the two, save something more of a chocolate tint to 

 Dr. Packard's types. 



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