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same species, as listed by Hampson; it may at least represent a good 

 racial form but our material is too scanty to decide at present. 



CUCULLIINAE 



Euros proprius Hy. Edw. (PI. XIV, Fig. 2). 



This species is extremely close to the one described later by the 

 same author as Herrichia cervina and for which Hampson creates 

 the genus Protophana; this genus will fall to Euros Hy. Edw. and it 

 is quite possible that cervina may prove to be only a form of proprius 

 but an examination of the type of the former in the British Museum 

 will be necessary before we can decide this question. We figure typ- 

 ical proprius. 



Cucullia aribac Barnes. 



We had considered this species identical with strigata Schaus, but 

 on a recent comparison of the two $ types we find that the latter 

 species is considerably darker on both wings and is we think arizona 

 Sm. and not aribac Barnes, which latter species we figured in our 

 Contributions Vol. I, No. 4, PI. VI, Fig. 15. 



Oncocnemis deserta Sm. 



An examination of the type of this species in the Hy. Edwards 

 Collection showed that it possessed a tibial claw which has been over- 

 looked by Smith when he drew up the description; the species must 

 therefore be removed from Homohadena and placed in Oncocnemis 

 next to punctilinea Hamp. to which it is very closely allied. 



Oncocnemis chandleri Grt. 



The species was described in Buff. Bull. I, 107 from several 

 specimens taken in Colorado by Mr. Mead and is excellently figured 

 on PI. Ill, Fig. 9 of the same volume. Hampson based his determin- 

 ation of chandleri on a specimen marked 'type' in the British Museum 

 which was evidently the aberrant specimen mentioned by Grote in the 

 original description in which the blackish hind border of secondaries 

 'does not contrast greatly with the rest of the wing', and which is 

 really a specimen of the species described later by Smith as Colorado 

 as an examination of the specimen in the British Museum proved to 

 us. In view of Grote's figure, which is unmistakable, and according 

 to the existing rules of nomenclature we do not believe that Hamp- 

 son's action in holding the name chandleri to this so-called type and 



