1897] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ?4T 



Schinia balba -7'^ 9 Grt. Arizona, Doll. 



Smith's Check List makes this a synonym of 6". separata Grt. 

 6". separata is present from California. It is larger and quite 

 distinct from 6". balba. In the Catalogue, however, Smith calls 

 balba a good species. 

 Schinia carmosina 9 Neum. Florida. 



Mr. Neumocgen thought there were two forms mixed under 

 the name 6". sangiiinea Geyer, and described the more brilliant 

 as carminosa. This, however, is the form which Geyer described, 

 and Mr. Strecker had already named the paler form gloriosa. 

 Carmosina, therefore, falls into the synonymy, where it will some 

 day probably have the company of Mr. Strecker's term gloriosa. 

 The only differences between the two forms seem to be in the 

 higher coloring of the primaries of carmosina and darker secon- 

 daries. The secondaries of Schinia brevis, as will be noted below, 

 vary sufficiently to tempt the ambitious into descriptions of varie- 

 ties. 

 Schinia petu/ans -^ Hy. Edwards. Florida. 



Described as an Anthcecia. 



Schinia crenilinea 9 Smith. Texas. 



Schinia bicuspida Q Sinith. Texas. 



Schinia constricta ^ Hy. Edwards. North Carolina. 



Described as a Ligranthcecia. 

 Schinia concinna (^- Smith. Texas. 



This may prove to be but a form of the very variable S. brevis. 

 Mr. Doll has recently taken a number of fine specimens of 6". 

 brevis in New York, and the variation is quite remarkable. 

 Grote's variety oi brevis, atrites is probably only the female form. 

 The males show yellow at the base of secondaries, the females 

 often being entirely black. 

 Dasypoiidea lucens var. luxuriosa 9 Grt. Montana. 



Merely a very brilliantly red specimen, as the name implies. 

 Melaporphyria belladona ^' Q Hy. Edwards. Utah. 



The published description calls this a Melicleptria, but the type 

 label in Edwards's handwriting reads *' Pseiidanaria n. g., bel- 

 ladona n. sp." Smith's location of the species seems undoubt- 

 edly correct. 

 Melicleptria honesta (^ Grt. Oregon. 



An exactly similar specimen is in the collection labeled villosa. 

 Not having the description of villosa at hand, when examining 



