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PSYCHE. 



2 9 . Not rare throughout the 

 higher Rockies, and in the foothills in 

 British America. 



Melicleptria villosa Grt. 



I 9 . Common 

 Rocl\ies. 



Drasteria erechtea Cramer, 

 I 9 . Common everywhere. 



[November, igoo. 



the Colorado 



NOTES ON THE SPECIES OF MACROPSIS AND AGALLIA OF 



NORTH AMERICA. 



BY E. D. BALL, FORT COLLINS, COLO. 



In 189S Osborn and Ball published a 

 review of the species of Agallia* in whicii 

 thirteen species were included. A few 

 months later Mr. C. F. Baker in a paper 

 on the genus t described six species and 

 one variety as new. Of these, five are 

 synonyms of species included in our 

 synopsis, leaving two to add to the list. 

 The present paper adds three more, 

 making eighteen strictly N. A. species, 

 to which might be added five species by 

 Uhler from St. Vincent Isd. though not 

 strictly within our territory. 



Agallia modesta O. & B. 



Agallia mexicana Baker. Baker's 

 specimens were from the same locality 

 (Vera Cruz) from which modesta was 

 described, and agree in every respect, 

 except that he gives the last ventral seg- 

 ment of the 9 as " slightly concave." 



If he had followed his own elaborate 



* A review of the N. A. Species of Agallia. Proc. Dav. 

 acad- VII, pp. 45-64. Authors Separata mailed Jan. ::6, 

 i8()S. 

 t PsvcHBj April, 1S98. 



directions for viewing this segment (Ent. 

 News Mch. '99, p. 91-92) he would have 

 found it truncate as originally described. 

 In his remarks after the description 

 ^-notata (used twice) should read 

 if-punctata and " this " in the last sen- 

 tence should certainly be " these " in- 

 stead. 



Agallia producta O. & B. 



Aga//ia hcydei Baker. This species of 

 Baker's was also described from the same 

 locality from which the corresponding 

 one of ours came. A comparison of the 

 descriptions will satisfy anyone of their 

 identity. In his description of the fe- 

 male segment he says " to a shallowly 

 notched apex." The original descrip- 

 tion reads " truncate but often angularly 

 elevated, giving the appearance of a 

 slight median notch." Did he follow 

 his own directions that time.' The 

 name \-notata occurs three times in this 

 description ; there has been no species 

 described under that name. He must 

 certainly mean \-pHiictata Prov. 



