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variation in color, but in all the males the black median cross line of the 

 hind wings is very much straighter than in the females. In one male it 

 is exactly as in the figure of cupidaria, — that is, somewhat rounded in- 

 wardlv. The females are in their lines quite uniformly after one pattern, 

 the males quite uniformly after the other. E. mexicanaria , Gri., Trans. 

 Kans. Acad. Sci., VIII, 51, I have very Uitle doubt is a form of this 

 same species. Indeed, Mr. Grole seemed in his description to be more 

 than half convinced of this, and as well of the opinion expressed above 

 that his cupidaria was the male q^ qiiernaria. 



Phigalia olivacearia, Morr. , Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., X\T, 200. 

 With several specimens before me having labels in Mr. Morrison s 

 handwriting, I am quite strongly of the opinion that this species is not a 

 synonym o^ sfrigalaria, Minot. 'I'he two are very easily separated and 

 the differences seem to be constant. Olivacearia is more even and silky 

 m vestiture and has an olivaceous shading. The hind wings are much 

 lighter and show but one indistinct line, straighter than the corresponding 

 line in sirigakiria, and are less angulated at the anterior angle, and as 

 compared with the inner margin of the fore wings the hind wings are 

 shorter. The lines of the fore wings are less distinct, the median line is 

 at costa nearer the basal than the outer in olivacearia, but is nearer the 

 outer in strigataria. In olivacearia the median Ime at costa turns out and 

 forms an angle just below costa ; in strigataria it is curved In olivace- 

 aria the outer line at costa is curved with a black tooth at lower pomt ; 

 in strigataria it is nearly straight and at length angulated. In olivacearia 

 the outer line near inner margin is generally confluent with the median 

 line and is loosely straight, in strigataria it is rarely confluent, and just 

 before the inner margin forms an even arc, concave outwardly. In olivac- 

 earia the female is much smaller, and the wings are not more than half as 

 long being not quite as long as thorax, while in strigataria they reach to 

 the second abdominal segment. P. cinctaria, French, is probably a 

 synonym of /*. strigataria, Minot. It vvas described from one 9' ^^^ 

 the description applies entirely to females of strigataria, which in cok r 

 have quite a little variation. 



Anisopteryx vernata. Peck, Mass. Mag., Oct. 1795, 323, 415- 

 Dr. Packard argues at some length that Harris made a mistake in 

 describing A. pometaria, stating that he redescribed the insect originally 

 described by Peck. Dr. Packard gives the name autumnata to the species 

 that he thought undescribed. Mr. IMann, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XV, 382, and Can. Ent., VIII, 164, shows that Harris did not redescribe 

 Peck's veriiata. It seems to me the two species stand Aiiisopteryx vernata. 

 Peck, and A. pometaria, Harris, with A. autitmtiata, Pack., as a synon\ni 

 of the latter. 



