August i8c)6.1 



PSYCHE. 



411 



The specimens from Speckled Mt., Me. 

 four in number, are all long-winged 

 and perhaps flew there in the adult 

 stage. 



lo. Orphula olivacea Morse. 

 Figs. lo, loa. 



Stenobotliriis olivacciis. Morse, - 

 Psvche, '93, 477; '94, 104. Beuten- 

 miiller, 294. 



This species I have described in lull 

 elsewhere (loc. cit.) and there is very 

 little new to add here. The ^ , while 

 often presenting a greenish hue at 



capture, dries to a dull brown. The 

 green form of 9 is about one-fourth to 

 one-third as numerous as the brown. 



In New England it is known only 

 from Greenwich and Stamford, Conn. 

 Beutenmiiller reports it from Sandy 

 Hook, N. J., and I have received it 

 from Prof. J. B. .Smith, from Anglesea, 

 X. J., where it seems to be common. 

 One female from the latter place is 

 extremelv large, measuring as follows : 

 hind fern. 14.5 ; teg. 22 ; total length 

 30 mm. 



THE CONDITION OF APATELA. 



BY A. K,\DCLIFFE GROTE, A. M., HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



It is a matter for regret that in 1S67 

 we had no huger series of the American 

 species with us, when the late Mr. C. T. 

 Robinson was my companion in a visit 

 to Guenee at Chateaudun. I had ham- 

 amelis and a paler species, besides a 

 few others, and this paler species is 

 what I subsequently named clarescens 

 in American collections. Guenee had 

 his tvpes in little glass boxes, and, after 

 a long study, thought that the pale 

 species might be clarescens, but it dif- 

 fered from his type somewhat. Guenee 

 said that some of his types were sent 

 back to the British Museum, and some 

 named specimens, but many of his 

 types he had with him. Of some of 

 these he furnished me drawings (which 

 I can no longer find) at a later period. 

 There were no Apatelas among these. 

 One was Oligia exesa^ which I recog- 



nized in my collection and which, with 

 the other American species, we may 

 have to refer to Monodes, as they are 

 probably not congeneric with the type 

 of Oligia, the European O. sti-ig'ilis. 



From what M. Guenee told me, it is 

 clear that positive certainty as to the 

 species of Apatela cannot be obtained 

 until the types are examined which are 

 now with M. Oberthur. These types 

 must be compared with the named ex- 

 amples or types in the British Museum, 

 and, above all, with Guen6e's probably 

 sufficient, yet somewhat scanty descrip- 

 tions in this genus. The decision as to 

 these species cannot rest alone on Mr. 

 Butler's comparisons of the named 

 examples in coll. Brit. Mus. From 

 these named examples Butler and Smith 

 refer clarescens as a svnonym oi hania- 

 niclisy leaving my c/arescens without a 



