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Japan (Pryer coll., &c.). Type (male) and six others in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. One male in coll. L. B. Prout. 



2. Operophtera japonaria (Leech). 

 This species, described in Ent. Supp. 1891, 48, as Oporahia 

 japonaria, must also, on account of the single long areole, be 

 transferred to Operophtera. Vein 6, as in 0. relegata, is normally 

 short-stalked with 7-9, but in one aberrant specimen out of 

 eight examined it arises separately from the angle of the cell. 

 The female, like those of its true congeners, so far as they are 

 known, is semiapterous. Leech merely says {loc. cit.) that it has 

 " all the characteristic markings of the male " ; the sole example 

 from his collection shows the fore wings about the length of 

 abdomen, narrower and more acute at the produced inner angle 

 than in 0. boreata, Hiib., the hind wings very short and ex- 

 tremely narrow, apparently somewhat crippled. 



3. CtENOCALPE CENTROSTRIGARIA (Woll.). 



This species, though not quite such a cosmopolitan as its 

 cousin flnviata, has an even wider distribution than Staudiuger 

 ascribes to it. I have it from Jamaica and Buenos Ayres, and 

 believe it occurs very generally in Atlantic America, both North 

 and South. It has been suggested, though I think the suggestion 

 is unpublished, that it is the Euholia custodiata of Guen6e (Spec. 

 Gen. X. 490), in which case that would be the oldest name; but 

 I hold the union to be impossible. Hulst's determination of 

 custodiata a,s=:Ochyria gueneeata, Pack., is much more satis- 

 factory. At any rate, custodiata was a larger insect than centro- 

 strigaria, and was described from California ; whereas my friend 

 Mr. R. F. Pearsall writes me that he does not know centro- 

 strigaria from west of the Alleghany and Appalachian Mountains 

 — at any rate, certainly not from the far west. The correct 

 synonymy seems to be : — 



Coremia c ent rostrig aria, Woll., Ann. Mag. (3), i. 119. 



Phihalapteryx latirupta, Walk., xxxv. 1684. 



Cidaria luscinata, Zell., Verb. Wien. xxiii. 205. 



C. interruptata, Ebl., Ann. Hofmus. ix. 76. 



Plemyria paranensis, Schs., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxvii. 

 273. 



The last synonym is new, but is certain, according to examples 

 named by Schaus himself. 



4. Entephria c^siata (Schiff.). 



Scarcely had the final proofs of my paper on the variation of 

 this species (Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc. pt. xvii. 1907) left my 

 hands before I came across two references which I should have 

 liked to include there. A synonym to ab. annosata, Zett., is var. 

 (ab.) nigristiaria, Gregs. (Ent. v. 75), described as having "deep 



