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A single good male collected by Mr. Baird and sent in by Dr. 

 Fletcher. The specimen has moderately pectinated antennae and the 

 branches are bristle-tufted at the tips. It is related in general type of 

 maculation to orthogonia Morr. , but differs in the darker ground color 

 of the primaries in which the greenish tint is obvious, and in the 

 smoky secondaries, which in orthogonia are almost white in the male. 

 It is unfortunate that the female is not at hand ; but only the single 

 example was taken. 



PSEUDANARTA Grt. 



In looking over his collection, Dr. Barnes also called my attention 

 to the species of Pseudanarta which, in his opinion, were getting mixed 

 — i. e., specimens were being referred under names which did not 

 really cover them. He was good enough also to turn over some of 

 this incongruous material to me and this I have combined and closely 

 compared with my own. 



There are five nominal species in our catalogues: aurea Grt., 

 flava Grt., singula Grt., flavidens Grt., and falcata Neum., and of 

 these, flava is the generic type. I called attention to the fact that 

 aurea was not congeneric with the other species, in 1892, after ex- 

 amining the type in the British Museum, and it is probable that this 

 species is the type of Copanarta Grt., Abh. nat. Ver. Brem., XIV, 

 112, cited as a synonym of Pseudanarta by Dyar ; but I do not have 

 the publication for reference. Later, when describing Oncocnemis 

 nigerrima in the Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 1903, I referred to it as a 

 close ally of aurea Grt., which I placed in the same genus; whether 

 wisely or not is perhaps a question. At all events aurea with its ab- 

 breviated, armed fore-tibia cannot remain associated with flava, which 

 has the same member long, slender and unarmed. 



P. falcata Neum. differs from all the other members of the genus 

 in wing form and in the divergent more hairy thoracic vestiture, and 

 its stay in this genus will probably be limited. 



This leaves three species, all described by Mr. Grote, and fully 

 congeneric. Flava, the first described and also the smallest has an 

 ash-gray base upon which the maculation is somewhat inconspicuously 

 marked. There is a distinct connecting bar between the median 

 lines and above that the median space is more or less brownish, a 

 color that is also evident in the s. t. space. The t. p. line is exserted 

 over the cell and has the angles of the exsertion a little marked, 

 sometimes emphasized when the line is a little drawn in just opposite 



