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SO that I consider that mine is Schmarda's species, while Ehlers's belongs elsewhere. 

 Fauvel (1917, p. 240, plate vi, figures 52-55) redescribes Aglaurides fulgida of Savigny, 

 which he regards as synonymous with Oenone diphyllidia of both Schmarda and Ehlers. 

 He gives also a considerable list of other synonyms. Although Fauvel remarks that 

 Schmarda's text-figure of the maxilla "laisse fort a d^sirer," he thinks that the two 

 descriptions were taken from the same species. I am unable to agree with this conclusion 

 and think that Ehlers's specimen is not diphyllidia, but is probably, as Fauvel thinks, 

 the same as Aglaurides fulgida. Fauvel described (1914, p. 131, etc.) as a variety sym- 

 metrica, of the species A. erythraeensis of Gravier, a form which agrees very closely with 

 my specimens, especially in the structure of the jaw apparatus. I did not find the form 

 of seta he figures in plate viii, figure 40, and it seems to me it might have been a view of 

 the ordinary winged seta in which both wings appeared. Later (1917, p. 252), Fauvel 

 has decided that this is not a variety but a distinct species. 



Schmarda's material was collected in Jamaica. The U. S. National Museum has 

 specimens from St. Thomas and Curacao, and I have collected them in the Dry Tortugas, 

 Bermuda, and a single specimen in Tobago. Fauvel 's were taken from St. Thomas, in 

 the Gulf of Guinea. 



