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PSYCHE. 



July, iS92- 



almost black, the tarsi pale. Abdomen a 

 little longer than the head and thorax to- 

 gether, longitudinally striate, the apical 

 margins of segments 2, 3, and 4, apical half 

 of 5, and the following segments smooth, 

 polished; the second segment has also two 

 transverse lines or impressions, the first dis- 

 tinct situated a little beyond its basal third, 

 the second indistinct. 



Hab. — District of Columbia, Cali- 



fornia, and Morgantown, W. Va. 

 Types in Coll. Ashmead and National 

 Museum. 



My specimens were taken at large, 

 while those in the National Museum 

 were reared June 24, 1891, at Morgan- 

 town, W. Va., by Prof. A. D. Hop- 

 kins, from Anthaxia viridicornis, 

 living: in willow twisrs. 



NOTES ON CERURA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES 



BY HARRISON G. DYAR, BOSTON, MASS. 



The species of Cerura have been so badly 

 mixed up in Prof. Smith's new list, that I 

 will give a catalogue of them, as follows : 



Cerura multiscripta Riley. 



1875 — Riley, Trans. St. Louis acad. sci., 

 iii, 241. 



1S90 — Dyar, Psyche, v, 393. 



Habitat — Missouri and Illinois to New 

 York. 



Cerura scitiscripta Walker. 



1S65 — Walk., Cat. lep. Brit. mus.,xxxii, 408. 



var. Candida Lintner. 



1877 — Lintn. , 30th rept. N. Y. State mus. , 

 199. 



1891 — Dyar, Can^ ent., xxiii, 87. pr. var. 



Habitat — Georgia to Kansas. 



Cerura cinerea Walker. 



1865 — Walk. Cat. lep. Brit, mus, xxxii, 

 407. 



1883 — Edwards and Elliot, Papilio, iii, 

 130. 



1891 — Dyar, Psyche, vi, 80. 



var. cinereoides Dyar. 



1890 — Dyar, Can. ent., xxii, 253. 



1891 — Dyar, Psyche, vi, 82. 



Habitat — New York to Montana and Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Cerura occidentalis Lintner. 



1877 — Lintn., 30th rept. N. Y. State Mus., 

 194. 



1881 — French, Can. ent., xiii, 144. 



Habitat — Pennsylvania to Canada and 

 Wisconsin. 



Cerura modesta Hudson. 



1891 — Hudson, Can. ent., xxiii, 197. 



Habitat — Northern New York. 



Cerura borealis Boisduval. 



1832 — Boisd., Cuv. an. kingd., (Griffith). 



1841 — Harris, Rept. ins. Mass., 306. 



1864 — Packard, Proc. ent. soc. Phil., iii' 



375- 



1872 — Lintner, 26th rept. N. Y. st. cab. 

 nat. hist., 151. 



1877 — Lintner, 30th rept. N. Y. st. mus., 

 196. 



1881 — French, Can. ent., xiii, 145. 



1891 — Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 85. 



Habitat — Georgia and Missouri to Illi- 

 nois and New England states. 



Cerura scolopendrina Boisduval. 



1869 — Boisd., L6p. de la Cal., 86. 



1S91 — Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 186. 



aquilonaris Lintner. 



1877 — Lintn., 30th rept. N. Y. state mus., 

 197. 



1891 — Thaxter, Can., ent., xxiii, 34. 



189 1 — Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 1S6, pr. syn. 



Habitat — New York, Canada, Montana, 

 Oregon and California.* 



*This is, doubtless, the species to which Butler re- 

 ferred as C. bicuspis Bkh. in Ann. mag. n. h., viii, 317 



