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would be absolutely confounding if the difference in the cilia- 

 tion of their antennae was not evident. The following is their 

 general description : 



"The superior wings are subdentate, of a powdery gray, 

 bordering on a yellow, and usually dotted or striated with 

 brown atoms. The orbicular is wanting, but the reniform is 

 usually present, of an oval form and blackish. All the lines 

 are indistinct except the subterminal, of which the inferior 

 portion is always visible, blackish, slightly dentate, and fol- 

 lowed by a contiguous, parallel, ferruginous line. The in- 

 ferior wings are yellow, with a large cellular spot and a 

 black border, irregular and interrupted near the anal angle 

 by a spot of the color of the ground, as in CATOCALA. The 

 under side of the same wings have the designs black and 

 more distinct, and the costa gray. That of the superior is 

 also yellow, with two black bands extending from the costa 

 and terminating before the internal margin. The abdomen 

 is not annulated with yellow and black as in HYBL^EA, but 

 all yellow with some black bands occupying only the upper 

 side of the segments, with the anus equally black above. 



The Hypocalas inhabit India, Africa and America. They 

 are not common in collections, where they are almost always 

 found in a bad state." 



The honor and credit of the discovery of this moth is due 

 to Mr. W. W. Hill, of Albany, N. Y. I do not deem it an 

 accidental discovery, but rather the direct consequence of so 

 persistent and thorough a " working up " of a favorable locality 

 by the aid of a greatly improved method of sugaring, that I 

 believe I may venture the assertion that not even an approxi- 

 mation to it has hitherto been made in the annals of Lepidop- 

 tera collecting. While, therefore, I most earnestly deprecate 

 the frequent introduction of names of individuals in our En- 

 tomological nomenclature, often on no other ground than as 

 a pretty compliment, an incentive to the enlargement of an 

 amateur collection, or as a means of securing the favor of a 

 collector, and while I would guard the honor as a just tribute, 

 (valuable only from its rare bestowal), to those whose labors 

 constitute a portion of the history of our science, in the 

 present instance, I have no hesitancy in proposing the name 

 of the discoverer for association with the insect below de- 

 scribed. The results obtained at Center during the year 1877, 

 hereafter to be given to the public, will assuredly constitute 



