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ing in numbers on clover, really intend this species, and not olinalis, 

 which latter is a purely American form. But I recollect determining 

 the species originally for Mr. Eiley, and there can be no doubt that the 

 present species is the one they described, although in the terms used 

 for color both Eiley and Packard may have been inexact. It is not 

 credible that they have mixed the two species in their illustrations or 

 descriptions. It is curious that in North America the insect is more 

 common than on the continent; and the question of its introduction is 

 an open one. I have not seen it from Texas. The specimens before 

 me are from New York. Lederer says that a male of this species 

 sent him through Professor Zeller from New York agrees exactly with 

 the European specimens. 



Asopia olinalis Guen., p. 118. 



Asopia trentonalis Sclilaeger, Led. p. 343, taf. 7, tig. 2. 



3 9. Varies in size and depth of color. New York and Texas (Bel- 

 frage, No. 356). 



Asopia Mnodulalis Zell., Beitr. 1, 501. 



(?. One specimen of this species is before me. 7i looks like a variety 

 of olinalis, but the fringes are not yellow. The outer line is a little 

 more outwardly bent than in olinalis. Texas (Belfrage, No. 358). 



Asopia liimonialis ZelL, Beitr. 1 , 500. 



I do not know this Massachusetts form, which is said by Zeller to have 

 the fringes not quite so brightly golden-yellow as costalis, and to be as 

 large as the largest olinalis. It cannot be devialis from the characters 

 given to the transverse lines and the general color. 



Asopia devialis Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S. 2, 229. 



$. This form is large, of a faded yellow, sometimes with a faint pur- 

 ple tinge, besprinkled with dark scales ; the fringes are concolorous 

 with the wing, faded ochery or yellowish. Lines dark, followed by pale 

 shades. The outer line is denticulate, forming four or five dark points 

 below the pale costal blotch. The costal booklets between the lines are 

 obsolete ; with difficulty under the glass I can make out three of them. 

 Quebec (Belanger) ; Albany, N. Y. (Professor Lintner and Mr. Hill). 



Asopia squamealis Grote, Bull. B, S. N. S. 1, 172, and 2, 229. 



$ 9. Primaries deep red, sprinkled with black. Fringes on primaries 

 blackish ; on secondaries paler, both interlined ; black terminal lines 

 distinct. Wings narrow. On fore wings, the lines wide apart, exterior 

 line slightly denticulate; the lines black, followed by faint yellow shades ; 

 between the lines are five costal dots surrounded with black scales. 

 Hind wings blackish, with distinct exterior line and the terminal mar- 

 gin washed with red. Hastings, N. Y., in June ; also taken by myself 

 near Buffalo in July. A very distinct species, which I have determined 

 myself in different collections. 



