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A FEW REMARKS ON GROSSBECK'S LIST OF 



FLORIDA LEPIDOPTERA WITH 



DESCRIPTIONS OF 



NEW SPECIES 



We have received with much pleasure a copy of the Lepidoptera 

 of Florida by our lamented friend J. A. Grossbeck, published in Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H. 1917, XXXVIII, pp. 1-147. As we are directly or in- 

 directly responsible for the determinations of a number of the species 

 listed the following notes on a few of them, based on our present more 

 extended knowledge, may be of interest : 



Sphida obliqua Wlk. (p. 60). 



The determination of this species was made before the publication 

 of 5. anoa Dyar and the records should be removed to this latter name 

 as it is probable that obliqua does not occur in the south. Our records 

 are not, however, from Ft. Myers and Chokoloskee but from Ft. Meade 

 and Miami, the latter being the type locality for anoa. 



Capnodes punctivena Sm. (p. 77). 



This species is a synonym of rufinans Gn. ; it occurs in two well 

 marked forms — with and without white dots on the cross lines — the 

 form without white dots being discerpta Wlk. according to Sir Geo. 

 Hampson (in lift.). 



Chokoloskee, Fla. may be added to the list of localities. 



Racheospila lixaria Gn. (p. 86). 



Judging by our material as named and referred to by Mr. Gross- 

 beck we doubt very much if he has correctly identified Guenee's species. 

 According to the descriptions lixaria Gn. and catachloa Hulst must be 

 very similar ; they both have a crenulate or dentate post-median line, a 

 red line at base of fringe, the fringe checkered with red and the abdo- 

 men with white diamond patches bordered with red. We have not seen 

 the type of catachloa which is with Mrs. Slosson but we accept 

 the specimen identified for us by Mr. Grossbeck as presumably correct ; 

 we sent a specimen of this species to Mr. L. B. Prout to compare with 

 the type of inclusaria in the British Museum and he returned it with 

 the note 'inclusaria has stronger palpus, less regularly rounded hind 



