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Hadena relecina Morr. was described in the Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., xvii, 216 1874, and in 1882, Mr. Grote in his list of that year 

 referred the species to Luceria. In 1890, in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xii, 440, I identified the species from one female example that agreed 

 very nicely with Mr. Morrison's description, which I quoted. There 

 were some slight discrepancies in what seemed to be immaterial char- 

 acters and I placed the species in the series Xylophasia. Other 

 specimens came to hand which I named relecina without further 

 question, until a considerable series seemed to indicate a closer rela- 

 tion to Aporophyla yosemitce than was suspected, and a departure 

 from the original description. Recently, I saw Mr. Morrison's type 

 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, and find that 

 Mr. Grote was right in referring the species as an ally of burgessi, 

 and that through a failure to realize the meaning of Mr. Morrison's 

 term "gray," I had totally misidentified his species. The descrip- 

 tion of the maculation stands very prettily, and the form of the 

 ordinary spots is almost identical, as are the strongly dentate median 

 lines ; but in color and wing-form my relecina is totally different from 

 Mr. Morrison's. 



This induced a renewed study of my series of specimens, and I 

 find that I have three males and two females that agree with both 

 Mr. Grote's type and with his description ; but they agree also with 

 Mr. Grote's characterization of Fishia, except that the tongue is not 

 weak. The species is certainly not an Aporophyla as Lederer de- 

 scribes it, and would be accepted as Hadena on superficial charac- 

 ters without any question. It is really a very close ally of Anytus 

 Grt., from which it differs mainly in the more trigonate and more 

 pointed primaries, in the less depressed form and in the finer, some- 

 what more compact vestiture. As the type of maculation is very 

 different and the habitus distinctive, Fishia must stand as an Agro- 

 tid genus with middle and hind tibise spinose ; the hind tibiae sparsely 

 armed and chiefly between the usual spurs. The thoracic crest is 

 distinct and is divided anteriorly and posteriorly. 



Enthea is the type and is described as coal black, with the mark 

 ings velvety black. This form is not represented in the series be 

 fore me. 



Yosemitce is dark ashen gray, very even in color, with the lines 

 black and well defined. The secondaries are gray, powdery, whit- 

 ish at base in the male, darker throughout in the female. The 



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