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Aspilates olenusaria Wlk. 1675, is a variety of A. coloraria 

 Fab. 



Apicia liberaria Wlk. 239, has Macaria integrara Wlk. 889, 

 and A. lintneraria Pack, as synonyms. 



Tephrina unicalcararia Gn. ii, 100, another of the Lorquin in- 

 sects, is, as a specimen is named in the British Museum, the same 

 as behrensaria Hulst. I am as well satisfied with this determina- 

 tion as any, and so it may stand. The insect, however, appears 

 in two quite distinct forms — one rusty ochreous, the other cervi- 

 nous; the latter may be called var. behre^isaria Hulst. 



Numaria duaria Gn. ii, 135, has as synonyms: -A^. hamaria 

 Gn. ii, 136, Ellopia amyrisafia\N\'k. 164, Caberodes agreasaria 

 Wlk. 252, Endropia adustaria Wlk. sup. 1545. 



I agree with Dr. Packard as to the synonyms of Endropia 

 hyperchraria H,-Sch., viz.: E. refradaria Gn. i, 125, E. lateri- 

 tiaria Gn. i, 125, and E. mestusata Wlk. 154. To these I add 

 Azelina foedaria Wlk., sup. 1548, and Macaria? indeclinata 

 Wlk. 888. 



(To be continued.) 



ANT NESTS. . 



By Frederick Knab, 



I have noticed the picture and article, ' ' A Home among the 

 Tree Tops" with interest, and the following observations made 

 about nine years ago on the Amazon may perhaps not be familiar 

 to every one. 



Nests, in appearance and size, as described in the above article 

 are very common on the Lower Amazon, only those I examined 

 appeared to be made of mud, and were inhabited by a species 

 of large black ant. Sometimes they are high up in the crotch 

 of a tree; sometimes quite near the ground. Few probably know 

 that the common paroquets rear their young within these ant 

 nests — a most interesting case of intimate relations between widely 

 different animals. The bird drills a hole into the side of the ant- 

 hive, like a woodpecker's in a tree. Inside quite a cavity is 

 scooped out, in which the eggs are laid and hatched out without 

 annoyance from the ants, which continue in possession of their 

 home. It can readily be seen that the ants, who rush forth at 



