1 894-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3O3 



The species of the British Museum have recently been arranged 

 by Mr. Warren, who has been making a. special study of the 

 Geometrina. He has thus brought together the various types 

 that are synonymous, and I was thus not a Httle assisted in the 

 locating of specimens, and the determination of species. My 

 stay at Rennes was very short by necessity, and I was not able 

 to give as much study to the types of Guen^e as I wished to be 

 able to give. Yet I was able almost entirely to determine the 

 types which are still in existence. 



My comparisons were made without any reference at the time 

 to those of Dr. Packard and Mr. Grote. In the most of cases 

 I find I agree with them, and in the most of others, on account 

 of the poor condition of types it is very easy to differ. But in 

 view of the material I had for comparison and the care and time 

 given (other things being equal), I feel entire confidence in my 

 own conclusions. I do not believe there has been much changing 

 in material in the Museum. Accidents do occur, but every effort 

 has been made to preserve the original types with the exact names 

 under which they were described. Mr. Walker was probably 

 somewhat careless, but no such charge can be made against any 

 now with the Museum. In my notes I follow, so far as the ma- 

 terial in the British Museum is concerned, the order in lar^e part 

 in which Mr. Warren has arranged the family. What is his basis 

 of classification I do not know; I certainly do not agree with it. 



The references of the species of Guen^e are to volumes i and 

 ii of the Phalenites. The references of the species of Walker 

 are to the pages of the Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the 

 British Museum, Geometrites, and to the pages of the supple- 

 ment of that catalogue. 



Phalana politia Cram., under the genus Nepheloleuca Butl. has 

 as synonyms Urapteryx complicata Gn. i, 30, and Urapteryx 

 illitubata Gn. i, 2P', fioridata Grt. has not even varietal standing. 



Ennomos ? arsesaria Wlk. p. 260, is, as it stands, the same as 

 Antepione depontanata Grt. There has beyond doubt been some 

 mistake here. Dr. Packard determined the species as Tetrads 

 cegrotata Gn. The description accords with this reference, not 

 at all with A. depojitanata Grt. , and the type described was from 

 California, which the present type is not. It is to be catalogued, 

 therefore, as a synonym of T. cBgrotata Gn., which, as I say below, 

 is a synonym of Sabulodes caberata Gn. 



