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costa by black discal spot ; inner third black, fringes with lighter hairs 

 tipped with golden brown. 



Secondaries with white fringes, median band wider than on upper side. 



Legs bristly ; golden brown above, with tibiae and tarsi whitish. Ex- 

 pands 25-29 mm. 



Described from five specimens taken on Mt. Diablo, Contra 

 Costa County, California, during the first part of April, 1905. 

 Altitude 3,849 feet. 



There are specimens in Dr. Behr's collection with the manu- 

 script namejimdna, which are rather worn. 



This Melickptria is allied to sueta, but easily separated by 

 the wide, median band, etc. 



Types in the collection of the author. 



I HAVE READ with much interest the recommendations of the Com- 

 mittee on Nomenclature of the Association of Economic Entomologists 

 as published in the May number of your Journal, but though not an Eco- 

 nomic Entomologist, I feel impelled to take exception to the use of one 

 of these names, viz. "fall web- worm " as applied to Hyphantria cunea 

 Drury. This name was given by Dr. Harris to his Hyphantria texlor, 

 and I see no reason for transferring it to any other species, especially as 

 since the publication of the results of my experiments on these moths 

 (Report Ent. Soc. Oct., 1901, p. 57-62), the specific distinctness of the 

 two forms has apparently been generally recognized if one may judge 

 from the catalogues recently issued and other works. 



Another reason why the name is more appropriate to textor is that, so 

 far as I know, it is single-brooded, and so pre-eminently a " Fall " worm, 

 while of cunea there are two broods, the first maturing about midsummer. 



Hyphantria cunea Drury, under the name Phalcena punctatissima, was 

 given the English name of "small ermine moth" by Sir. J. E. Smith. 

 Harris called it "many-spotted ermine moth," but as some forms of it 

 are unspotted the name originally given by Smith is preferred. 



I do not see why these names should not be unanimously recognized 

 by the Association of Economic Entomologists. — Henry H. Lyman. 



Desmia funeraUs Hubn. — Supplementing note by Mr. Haimbach, <z»/<7 

 p. 121. I have about thirty specimens of X\\& funeralis ioxvn, with large 

 white basal blotch in hind wing, of which two-thirds of the specimens 

 are males and one-third females; the former expand 22 to 29 mm., the 

 latter 22 to 30 mm. I have two exampies of the variety subdivisialis 

 Ent., both females, expanding respectively 19 and 22 mm. I should be 

 more inclined to separate the two forms specifically than lump them. — 

 W. D. Kearfott, Montclair, N. J. 



