196 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Leucania texana Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 211, 1874. 



Mr. Morrison refers under this name to what he considered a 

 variety of L. phragmatidicola from Texas, and gives dates for the 

 specimens. In my recent revision of the species of Leucania I 

 quoted the essestial parts of Mr. Morrison's description ; but failed 

 to identify it with any -form of the species to which it was referred 

 as a variety. It seemed scarcely credible that Mr. Grote's sugges 

 tion as to the species could be correct, especially as he gave the 

 name ligata to the form he thought Mr. Morrison might have had 

 before him. In looking over the material in the Cambridge collec- 

 tion recently, I found a small series of specimens labelled phragmati- 

 dicola var. in Mr. Morrison's handwriting, and three of these exam- 

 ples agree in locality and dates with the facts stated in the descrip- 

 tion of texana. The specimens came from Belfrage, are from the 

 Peabody collection, and without any doubt the specimens Mr. Mor- 

 rison had before him when he wrote; in other words, they are the 

 types of Leucania texana Morr. They prove that Mr. Grote was 

 correct in his surmise, and that texana Morr. is really the same as 

 ligata Grt. The latter name must sink as a synonym and texana 

 must take specific rank in its place. 



Leucania flabilis Grt., Can. Ent., xiii, 15, 1881, 



This species was described from Long Island, and up to this year 

 I had seen only the typical examples from the Tepper collection. 

 Recently, while looking over the collection of Mr. Philip Laurent, 

 at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, I was delighted to find a series of eight 

 or more specimens collected at Anglesea, N. J., late in July (21st), 

 and early in August (4th). They were taken at sugar, most of 

 them are females, and all are in very fair condition. None of the 

 specimens are quite as red or quite as well marked as normal ligata, 

 though coming from Texas, at least one of the examples would pass 

 as such without question. But, on the other hand, in the four ex- 

 amples now before me there is one that agree perfectly with L. 

 rimosa Grt., as represented in an example from Kittery Point, 

 Maine, kindly sent me by Dr. Thaxter. L. rimosa was described 

 in the Can. Ent., xiv, 216, 1882, and must be referred as a synonym 

 of Jiabilis. The relation of the latter species to ligata yet remains 

 to be determined. 



