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he received from Mr. H. D. Merrick—an error Mr. 
ck immediately detected—describing the latter as Eup. 
is (Ent. News, Vol. 18, Pp. 346). Recently I received from 
3 A. Merrick two specimens taken April 27, 1902, by H. 
Merrick, presumably similar to those sent Mr. Taylor, which 
re identified by Mr. Grossheck as Eup. swettii. Neither spe- 
answers Grote’s opening sentence, “clear, grayish, silky ;” 
ft 
a 
t vd are different shades of brown. Nebulosa Hulst must 
__ stand as a synonym of miserulata Grote. 
___In our eastern Eupithecias the females show a tendency to- 
ward extreme forms of coloration, and this species is no ex- 
a tion. Nebulosa as represented by its type from Texas in 
© Brooklyn Inst. Museum is one of these, but I have one ex- 
WS Jattly like it, taken in the Catskill Mountains, also a. 
* Sr nnd Se Seat t7pe of wiserolote may be fou 
2a gradient forms, one of which has certainly furnished 
; roars for the species recently described by Mr. L. W. Swett 
oy (Can. Ent., Vol. 39, p. 378) as Eup. grossbeckiata, which, 
og ine on becomes a synonym of nebulosa—miserulata. This 
.. Na conclusion was reached after an examination of speci- 
= pronounced as such by Mr. Swett in the collection of the 
Am. Mus. of Nat. History, N. Y., and is concurred in by Mr. 
= ; also. 
ace atih ses al ther spade Wy the 
heavily fasciculate-ciliate antenne of the male. The females 
rs also have the antennz stouter and distinctly ciliate, with longer 
__ Single spinose hairs at intervals—and in both sexes the front, 
vertex, thorax, and wing bases are usually overlaid with yel- 
lowish scales. Among some material loaned me by the U. S. 
Nat. Museum, through the courtesy of Dr. Dyar, are three spec- 
imens, also females, bearing a label “reared from larve on com- 
posite flowers, Selma, Ala., Oct. 1880, Patton,” and beneath it 
in same hand another “Eup. miserulata Gr.,” which have on 
palpi, front, thorax, and sparingly along costa, and in submar- 
ginal space a sprinkling of reddish brown scales, but I cannot 
separate them from my series, and believe them to be as Mr. 
Patton has labeled them, miserulata Gr. It is our most com- 
mon species, and is widely distributed. I have seen it from 
4 Wis., Ia., Ills., Mo., Tex., Ala., Ga., N. Car., Va., Tenn., Md., 
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