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Metro CAM PA perlata. Guenee. 



From Vancouver Island and Colorado ; it is also in the 

 museum from New York: it is very close to the European M.. 

 margaritata. Is it really distinct ? 



Tetracis auranticaria. Packard. 



An example from California ; it is new to our collection. 



Tetracis parallelia. Packard. 



A specimen from Sierra Nevada ; this is also new to us. 



Tetracis truxaliata. Guenee. 



Sierra Nevada, California ; new to us. 



Tetracis cegrotata. Guenee. 



Under this name Mr. Edwards sends us two examples, one 

 from Saucelito, California, of a pale, sandy reddish tint, with a 

 feeble pink gloss and with distinct grey stripes connecting the 

 black nervular spots; excepting that it is rather smaller and of a 

 deeper color, it hardly differs from Sabulodes dositheata, Guen. 

 which we have from Rio de Janeiro. The other specimen is from 

 San Francisco, is of a paler, sandy yellowish tint, with the grey 

 stripes much less defined. We received a still paler, although very 

 similar form some years ago under the Ms, name of Chcerodes 

 punctata, Pack. I should say that it is undoubtedly conspecific 

 with Sabulodes colombiata, Guen., two examples of which we have 

 from Venezuela, and also with Chcerodes subclararia and C. atro- 

 pesaria, Walk. 



AZELINA HUBNERARIA. Guenee. 



Two examples from Havilah, and Sierra Nevada, California. 

 They are larger and redder than our specimens and the line across 

 secondaries is less defined ; their general coloration is that of A. 

 nerisaria. These California specimens exhibit more clearly than 

 I have hitherto seen it, the peculiar pouch-like opening on each 

 side of the abdomen at its base. What is the use of this contriv- 

 ance ? 



ID^ID^.* 



"AcIDALIA" QUINQUELINEATA. Packard. 



Two specimens from Nevada. The species belongs to the 

 group Id(£a of Treitschke. The numerous forms associated under 

 the name oi Acidalia will have to be distributed into smaller and 

 less heterogeneous groups. 



"Acidalia" californiata. Packard. 



Two specimens, California. 



To associate this little rounded-winged species with the pre- 

 ceding is most painful, and in the face of the closely related gen- 

 era of the family EnnomidcB seems ridiculous in the extreme. It 

 is probably congeneric with A. rubricata of Europe and might be 

 placed with it under Emmiltis of Hiibner, though its body is 

 somewhat broader than that of the European species. 



* I suggest this name to supersede Acidaliidce since the name Acidalia was first apphed 

 to a group of Argynnides. 



