igoo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 527 



Notes on Some N. A. Geometrina and Pyralidina. 



By Geo. D. Hulst. 

 geometrina. 



Dr. Dyar writes me that Mr. Hampson made use of the term 

 Epiplemidae to express the family or subfamily called by Mr. 

 Meyrick Strophidiadse and by myself Strophidiinae. Mr. 

 Hampson' s name has priority. 



I think I am warranted in removing Deptalia insularia Guen. 

 from the Sterrhidae and placing it in a subfamily by it.self to be 

 called Deptaliinae. In the hind wings it has the peculiar vena- 

 tion of the Sterrhidae, but the fore wings are very decidedly 

 different. The cell is very short, shorter than of any other 

 Geometer I know of, and it is entirely anomalous in having 

 veins 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 on one stem. 



Nyderosea Hulst, a genus of Hyd7'iotnenicE (Tr. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. xxiii, 263, 1896), is a synonym of Tcphrodystis Hubn. 

 In my classification Tephrodystis is said to have two accessory 

 cells. It has one only. 



Rhaphidodemas Hulst, de.scribed as a genus of the Ennominae 

 (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 362, 1896), I find cannot be definitely 

 separated from Phigalia Hubn. 



The specimen I regarded as deplanaria Guen. , upon which I 

 made Paraphia Guen. distinct from Amilapis Guen., was not 

 deplanaria at all. My determination was, therefore, incorrect, 

 and the genus Amilapis must be a synonym of Paraphia. 



In my classification I made Emploda Guen. a synonym of 

 Mclanoptilon H. Sch. I made a mistake in this, and I do not 

 know that Melanoptilon is represented in our Fauna. Our 

 species will be catalogued under Emploda. 



I find upon further examination I cannot find a satisfactory 

 distinction between the genera Hyper it is Guen. and Xanthro- 

 type Warr. The type of the first is amicaria H. Sch. and of 

 the second crocataria Fabr. In crocataria the wings are less 

 angulate and the male scarcely at all angulate, but no line can 

 be drawn between the species. Hypocharia H. Sch., has bi- 

 pectinate antennae in the $ and must be in the same genus, 

 and gives in form a connecting link betw^een the two other 

 species. 



