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P. AUCILLARIA Stkr. 



This species, described from a single 9 from Florida appears to 

 be identical with ordinata Wlk., described from a specimen from the 

 Milne Coll., locality unknown; most of the N. Am. specimens in this 

 collection however came from Georgia and if we presume that this 

 was the case with the type of ordinata the two type localities would be 

 practically identical. 



Macaria grassata Hist. 



The species was described from a specimen from Colorado but 

 the 'type' in the Hulst Coll. is labelled Florida ; under praeatomata 

 Haw. is a specimen labelled 'Colo.' which may be the true type; the 

 two are identical and neither from the description nor from the 'type' 

 specimen can we separate grassata from praeatomata. 



M. SIMULATA Hist. 



Described from 2 $ in the Graef and Hulst Coll., no locality 

 given ; in the Hulst Coll. the 'type' is a 9 from Arizona and in the 

 Graef Coll. we found a S type from Texas ; this latter being prob- 

 ably the true type; the species, as already noted, is apparently the 

 same as punctolineata Pack. 



Genus Diastictis Hbn. 



This genus, as used by Meyrick and Hulst, is preoccupied by 

 Diastictis Hbn. in the Pyralidae (1818, Zutr. Ex. Schmet. p. 21). The 

 next valid name is apparently Itame Hbn. (Verz. p. 299) of which the 

 wauaria group is the typical section. 



Diastictis ella Hist. 



The type is a 9 from Washington State and is probably referable 

 to Deilinia but we are not prepared to say to which species as the 

 specimen appears rather aberrant. 



D. QUADRILINEARIA Pack. (PI. XIV, Fig. 11). 



This species has been placed as a synonym of bitactata Wlk. but 

 quite erroneously ; the type in the Packard Coll., which agrees excel- 

 lently with the description, proves the species to be the same as that 

 described later by Hulst under the name inquinaria. It is common 

 all through the Sierra Nevadas. We figure a $ specimen from San 

 Bernardino Mts., Calif. 



