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the male types are a form close to persius and probably the California 

 representative in the Higher Sierras of the Eastern species; the so- 

 called female type was really a male and belonged to the brizo group, 

 being the same as that later described by Wright as lacustra. Pcrnigra 

 is a very dark form apparently worthy of a name, and quite possibly 

 restricted to Mt. Tamalpais and the San Francisco Bay region ; a study 

 of the genitalia will be necessary to show whether it is distinct from 

 callidus as a species. 



Cerapoda oblita Grt. (syn. dcserta Grinnell). 



The species described as Autographa descrta by Grinnell in 1912, 

 (Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci., p. 79) proves to be synonymous with Cera- 

 poda oblita Grt. ; through the kindness of Dr. R. Ottolengui, of New 

 York, and Mr. F. Grinnell, one of the types has been placed in the 

 Barnes Collection. 



Genus Animomyia Dyar (syn. Gracfia Pears.) 



This genus was described and doubtfully placed in the Liparidae in 

 1908, (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. X, 53), based on the species morta Dyar 

 from San Diego, Calif. In 1910, (Can. Ent. XLII, 330), Pearsall erect- 

 ed the genus Gracfia in the Geomctridae for the species smithi Pears, 

 from Walters Station, Calif. We have before us one of the co-types 

 of smithi Pears., received through the kindness of the authofities of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and have re- 

 cently received a specimen of morta Dyar from Laguna Beach, Calif. 

 The two genera are synonyms without a doubt, in fact the specimens 

 from San Diego, mentioned by Pearsall at the close of his article as 

 being almost worthy of a varietal name, is really morta Dyar, which 

 seems to us specifically distinct from smithi; the points mentioned by 

 Pearsall, z'ic. smaller size, more hyaline wings and closeness of t. p. 

 line to discal dot easily separate morta from smithi. The reference to 

 the Geometridae near Coniodcs seems to us to be correct. The synony- 

 my will, therefore, stand : 



Animomyia Dyar. 



Graefia Pears. 



(i) morta Dyar. 



(2) smithi Pears. 



J. McDuNNOuGH, Decatur, Illinois. 



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