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the European Solidaginis ; the genus has a tuft behind collar; also our 
Oalocampa Impera is closer to the Kuropean Vetusta than I once thought 
it to be; Calocampa Cineritia is found across the Continent, and is de- 
cidedly a different species from either of the European ; the same (as to 
distinctness) is true of the prettier C. Curvimacula from the Rast. In this 
group Oarnosa is beyond doubt the handsomest species ; even the egg laid 
in the fall on maple leaves, is of a rich wine-red color. There is ¢ very 
interesting study opened by the colors of the moths of this group which 
blend with the ripening leaves among which they hide. Mr. Moffat, 
a most painstaking observer, has beaten fresh specimens of several Scope- 
losome out of oak leaves, in particular S. Grefiana, 8. Moffatiana and the 
deeply red S. Ocromatica, with its waxy chalybeous shadings, have been 
captured in this way beautifully fresh. 
13. Cuculliine m. The wings are long and narrow, the hind wings re- 
duced in size. The eyes are naked. The antennse simple, except in 
0. Serraticornis, an anomalous species from the Western coast. The 
collar is hood-shaped ; the body cylindrical, heavy, long and tufted on the 
dorsum of abdomen which much exceeds the secondaries. Cuculléa is rep- 
resented by but few species in comparison with the European, yet all the 
groups seem represented in our fauna, in which C. Conveatpennis comes 
nearest to the European type of the genus. Oleophana is represented by 
two species which have a claw on fore tibie, the collar hood-shaped, and 
the general appearance more like Cucullia than the European species, Q. 
Hulepis, is a handsomely marked species; OC. Antipoda was erroneously 
described as a Cucullia. The genus Myctophwata was described by me 
almost simultaneously as a Heliothid under the name of Hpinyctis. The 
naked lashed eyes, the hairy vestiture, the absence of a hood-shaped 
collar, the sunken head, the truncate, thickly spined tibiee are all Heliothid 
characters, and bring the moth near to Grotella and allied genera. Its de- 
scriber excludes it from the Heliothians, and does not indicate its position. 
After seeing a very fine specimen of the beautiful moth in Mr. Neume- 
gen’s large collection I can only place it here from the long narrow wings 
and stout body ; but it contradicts the main features of the group so much 
that the form. alone unites it, and my original position for the moth may 
finally be found the most natural. The Rev. Mr. Hulst’s paper is, I find, 
dated two months before my own in ‘‘Canadian Entomologist ’’ so that 
my G@. Notatella has to be dropped for N. Mugdalena. The moth is among 
the most beautiful and elegant of the family. 
14. Hurhipiine m. This group agrees with Oucullia in the small hind 
wings. The genus Ripogenus is close to the European Hurhipia, but dif- 
fers in detail in the shape of primaries and tuftings of the body. The moth 
is provided with two terminal abdominal tufts, one on each side, and is 
tufted along the dorsal line, with longer tufts on the basal segments 
above. The moth is of a beautiful brownish-red of various shade, with a 
bluish patch on median field below enclosing yellow dots. Apices shaded 
with bluish-white ; two superposed dots in place of reniform; transverse 
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