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Fig. 3. — Loxostege similalis; a, larva; 6, side view of 

 middle segment of larva; c, dorsal view anal seg- 

 ment of larva; d, pupa; e, cremastcr of pupa; /, 

 moth — n,/, somewhat enlarged; rf, twice natural 

 size; 6, r, c, more enlarged (from Riley in Ann. 

 Kept. Dept. Agr., 1885). 



garden webwonn, Loxostege {Phlyctcenodes) similalis Guen., but may 

 be distinguished by the chanicters above given. That there need be 

 no confu.sion of identity an ilhi-s- 

 tration of this latter is also intro- 

 duced for comparison (fig. 3). 



NOMENCLATURE AND SYNONYMY. 



Since the original description 

 of Guenec in 1854 (I. c.) which 

 appeared under the genus Sco- 

 pula, the species has been de- 

 scribed under the names Botys 

 ohlunalis Led. (Wien. Ent. Mo- 

 natschrift, 1863, pp. 372, 460), as 

 well as Botis Jiarvcyana Grt., and 

 assigned to various other genera among which are INIai'garitia, Phh^c- 

 tfenia, Pyrausta, and Pionea. 



In domestic lists and current literature this species has usually been 

 mentioned as Phlyctcmiia ferrugalis Hbn. , but it is at present catalogued 

 by Sir G. F. Hampson (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Feb. 21, 1S99, p. 242) 

 as Pionea 7'ubigalis Guen. According to the usage of American sys- 

 tematists this species appears to belong rightfully to Hapalia 7/Z>??., a 

 genus which was proposed, though not described, as early as 1827, or 

 twenty-seven 3'ears before Guenee's genus Pionea. 



Phlyctwnia rubigalis is, according to Hampson, native to North 

 America and distinct from the Old World, and nearh' cosmopolite 

 /errugalis Hbn.,^ with wdiich it has until very recently l^een confounded. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 



Grote's types of Botis harveyana were from New York and Texas. 

 In the Nationtd Museum are specimens bearing capture la])els of 

 Illinois, 1876, and St. Louis, Mo., 187S. Published records and 

 specimens now in the National collection are in evidence to show that 

 the known distribution, though not cosmopolitan, is very wide, cover- 

 ing nearh" our entire country from Canada to the Gulf States and 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The following are the known 

 localities: 



Toronto, Canada; Wading River, L. I.; Albany (Lintner), Pough- 

 keepsie. Highlands, New York City, and Ithaca, in New York; 

 Libonia, Pa. ; New Jersey — throughout the State (J. B.Smith); Lake- 

 land, Kensington, and Garrett Park, Md. ; Tennallytown and Brook- 



'Thia latter species is recordfxl from central and southern Europe, Great Britain 

 and Ireland, Western Asia, India, Ceylon, Burma, Japan, Afghanistan, western and 

 southern Africa. 



