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Euerythra trimaculata, neiv species. 

 \\\ joHX I). Smith. 



Head and thorax white, orbits of eyes and tlie vestiture of palpi l5rit;ht red. Ab- 

 domen wliite, the segments ringetl with bright red of variable width. In the ^ the 

 red is sometimes very faint orange covered with white scales. In the (^' on the con- 

 trary the predominating color is sometimes red and it appears white banded. A row 

 of black dorsal spots, which are however often wanting. Primaries with an umber 

 l)rovvn or blackish fascia of variable width near the base — broadest at costa, outwardly 

 oblique to thesubmedian interspace and there usually terminated— occasionally there 

 is a narrower prolongation inwardly oblique to the internal vein ; another short band 

 of similar color from the costa near apex inwardly, oblique to vein 5. A short upright 

 band from the inner margin near anal angle, to vein 2. In some specimens a double 

 spot at the end of the discal cell. The veins where they cross the brown bands are 

 marked with yellow scales. Secondaries pure white, immaculate. Beneath, the 

 markings of primaries are faintly reproduced. Secondaries occasionally with a discal 

 spot. Anterior coxte bright orange red, inside of anterior femora and tibiae brown. 

 Else underside v\-hite. 



Expands i — 1.25 inches = 26 — 33 mm. Hab. Texas. 



This species has been heretofore confounded with phasma Harv. , 

 which has the "Fore wings white, crossed b}' a broad irregtilar blackish 

 band from base to extremity of veins 3 and 4 where it stains the other- 

 wise white fringes. '' No trace of this band exists in the present species. 

 The ornamentation is similar in pattern and the present form has been 

 considered as one with the markings incomplete. In addition to the 

 color characters it offers others of a structural nature, to which I will draw- 

 attention in a subsequent article. ' 



Notes and News. 



Mr. A. G. Butler writes, that while going over their Noctuidifi recently, 

 he caught sight of two specimens oi' A^olnAs, right in the middle of the 

 I'hastriidcB and described by Walker (Cat. Lep. Het., 2)^^ Suppl., pi. 3, 

 p. 795) ^sEras/ria pustulata. It at once struck him that they were identical 

 with Arg^'i'ophyes nigrofasciata, and he kindly sent us the note. 



Xola nigrofasciata was described by Zeller in the Verb. k. k. Zool.- 

 Bot. Ges. , XXII, p. 454, pi. II, f. I (1872), was first referred by Grote 

 (Buf. Bui., II, 152), Xo Ra'.selia and afterward (Can. Ent. , IX, 237), to 

 Argyrophyes. Walker's specific name has of course undoubted priority 



and the species must be known in future as A. pustulata Wlk. 



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The following is part of a letter from I\Ir. A. G. Butler to the former 

 Editor. 



"In Rev. G. D. Hulst's article on Geometridae (p. 222, Vol. II), I am 

 glad to note what he says about the use of the Hiibnerian "Tentamen"' 

 names ; I strongly object to their adoption, on the following grounds : 



Entomologica Amebicana. Vol. m. 3 April, 1887. 



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