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of the larva is inaccurate and that what we call the Florida form of 
basiflava may prove to be merely a form of achatina with the dash ab- 
sent ; until however this can be definitely proved by breeding we con- 
sider it wiser to treat them as separate species. 
Hasitat. Georgia (A. & S.). 
O. BASIFLAVA Pack. (PI. I, Figs. 1-6; Pl. 6, Fig. 7). 
Parorgyia basiflava Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. III, 333 (1864). 
Parorgyia clintonti Grote & Robinson Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. VI, 3, Pl. I. figs. 2 
and 3 (1866). 
We have received a photograph of Packard’s type (a ¢ from the 
Harris Coll. taken at Nonantum, a suburb of Boston, Mass.) through 
the kindness of Mr. Johnson, Curator of the Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ; un- 
fortunately the condition is such that a reproduction has been impos- 
sible. We have also a photograph of Grote & Robinson’s ¢ type of 
clintontt (Pl. 6, Fig. 7), from Rhode Island, received from Am. Mus. 
Nat. Hist. and consider it identical with basiflava Pack. Packard’s 
description was evidently based on a faded, worn specimen, but he lays 
stress on the fact that the base of primaries is yellow with costal margin 
dark cinereous. Grote & Robinson dismiss the ¢ ina few words as sim- 
ilar to the @ but smaller, with less brown and markings more indistinct ; 
from the @ description we note however that “the space between 
basal line and the inner median line is pale brown, cinereous olivaceous 
along costa.” The photograph of the ¢ type shows a pale basal area 
just as in basiflava, and further the characteristic dark dashes in the 
subterminal space; the type is labelled “Grote & Robinson Collection 
No. 23087.” The @ type of clintonii has no type label, but among the 
material sent from New York for study purposes, we have discovered 
a 2 specimen labelled “Grote & Robinson Coll. No. 23088” (PI. I, 
Fig 4) which so exactly corresponds with the figure of the 9 type 
given with the original description that we have no hesitation in declar- 
ing it to be the missing type, and have marked it as such. Early auth- 
ors seem to have associated clintonii with a form of basiflava without 
the yellow basal area, but this is not borne out by the photograph of 
the type. Grote at various times refers to clintonii as a valid species 
but persistently ignores basiflava Pack. The fact that clintonti G. & R. 
has latterly been associated with plagiata Wlk. is due largely to the 
fact that the specimens in the Grote Coll. in the British Museum 
labelled clintonii are not the true species. We have received a colored 
