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Notes on Nephelodes Guen. (Lepid.)- 



By F. H. W'oLLEY DoD, Millarville, Alta., Canada. 



Of the three names standing as species of this genus in 

 Prof. Smith's Check List, reference to minians, Guen. and 

 pectinatus, Smith, are given in Dr. Dyar's catalogue. The type 

 locality of minians I don't know, but it is believed to be eastern. 

 Pectinatus was described from two males from Corfield, Vane. 

 I., and "B. C," and said to resemble minians, but to differ 

 in having the antennal branches longer and slightly thickened 

 at the tip, and lacking bristles. Later Prof. Smith described 

 tcrtiolis from seven males and a female from Winnipeg, and 

 stated that it was decidedly smaller than minians, with more 

 even fringes, lacked an obvious median shade on the primaries, 

 and differed in male genitalia (Journ. N. Y. E. S. xi. 19, 

 1903). The genitalia of all three species are figured on Plate 

 III of Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix, of the same year. Whether 

 the differences shown indicate the existence of three biologi- 

 cally distinct species, is a matter for future investigation. 



Sir George Hampson recognizes the genus, including in it 

 besides our three names as species, two more from Tibet. 

 These latte'r are by themselves in Section L "Male antennae 

 bipectinate to apex, the branches long." Section II contains 

 tcrtialis and pectinata, "male antenn?e bipectinate with moder- 

 ate branches with short bristle at extremity. The two he separ- 

 ates in a table thus, "Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged 

 with brown . . . tertialis," and "Hind wing wholly suf- 

 fused with brown . . . pectinata." He figures a male 

 co-type of the former from Winnipeg, and mentions having a 

 male from Colorado as well. Of pectinatus he gives a wood 

 cut, listing four males and a female from Vancouver Island. 

 Section III, "Antennae of male bipectinate, with short 

 branches with long bristle at extremity," is devoted to emme- 

 donia, Cram., which, described in 1779, he makes a prior name 

 to minians Guen., giving as other synonyms the names so 

 standing in Smith's Catalogue, except that he removes sobria 

 Walk., to a smooth-eyed genus in the next volume, and here 



