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Chloraspilates bicoloraria Pack. (Moii. Gconi., p. 212, pi. 13, f. 40, 1S76.) 

 Described by iMr. (jrote (Pap., II, 80, 1882,) as C. arizonaria. 

 Having his types before mc I can see no reason for considering ii 

 distinct. Tlie only difference noted is the discal ringlet. Ur. Packard 

 had only i ^^ to describe from, antl it happened it did not have 

 the discal ringlet evident. In a considerable series of specimens from 

 Texas and Arizona the majority have the annulate discal spot, the Texan 

 specimens rather more prominently than those from Arizona;- it is as a 

 rule much less marked in the (^ than in the 9- "^^ the very best, Mr. 

 Grote s name stands on a very frail basis as a variety, not good enough 

 however to warrant recognition in my opinion. 



Aspilates liberaria Walk. (C. Ii. M. (leoni . p. 239, i860.) 

 This species was described by ]Mr. Walker under the genus Apicia. 

 and without knowledge of its habitat. Later (C. B. j\I. Geom., p. 889. 

 1S61), he described it again as Macaria intcgraria. This same species 

 Dr. Packartl (C)th Kept. Peab. Acad. Sci., p. 44, 1S74,) described as 

 Aspilates linlitcraria. In his Mon. (}eom., p. 297, Dr. Packard recog- 

 nizes that his species is the same as \\'alker"s Macana intcgraria, but does 

 not change his own name in the descripticm, p. 209; afterwards Mr. 

 Goodell, writing to the Can. Ent. (vol. X, p. 40), says that Dr. Packard 

 lias for him identified specimens o{ Untneraria as \V'alker's A. liberaria. 

 How the Doctor came to this knowledge is not stated, but I think on 

 the basis of it we are warrantetl in considering the three s})ecies one and 

 the same. Dr. Packard figures A. liberaria, pi. 2, f 54, and thus prob- 

 -ably had a colored drawing of Walker's type. 



Aspilates coloraria Fab. (Sup. Sys. Knt., 96, 97, 1798.) 

 This insect is extraordinarily variable in appearance, as indeed all 

 our species of .-^iiyti/Z^/t'^ seem to be. Dr. Packard places the following 

 as synonyms : (/(Tr.s\S(7-/-/ir/ Hiibn., cruen/aria \\\\.\k., and sp/iLero»iacaria 

 Harvey. In remarks under this species (.Mon. Geom.) he says: "this 

 species is so much like A. dissimilaria, that I am inclined to regard it al- 

 most as a melanized form of that species. ' With a large number of, 

 specimens to compare, I am certain that the two are forms of the same 

 species. The name will of course stand A. coloraria. A number more 

 of Mr. Walker's species will also be rated as synonyms or varieties; how 

 many I tlo not know, but without doubt the following are: A. atro- 

 pimctaria, C. 13. JM. C}eoni., \\ 1673, 1862, and A. olemisaria, C". B. M. 

 Geom., p. 1675, 1862. 



Gorytodes uncanaria Ciiieii. (I'hal. II, 180, 1857.) 

 This species is subject to considerable variation of the cross lines. 

 Plalcea californiaria H. Sch., has been regarded as a synonym, I think 



