Mann.] 



208 



[Jan. 1, 



Scudder's 

 Nvmeros. 



552 

 552 

 552 

 552 



552 D 

 552 E 



552 

 552 

 553 

 553 

 553 

 553 

 553 

 553 

 553 

 553 



Harris'' Numeros, etc. 



334 

 334 



335 



335 



Canker-worm moth or 



with them, Nov. 20 '48 



Canker-worm moth, 



Nov. 30, '48. 



335 



360 



129 

 335 

 335 

 334 



334 



Sex. 



Species. 



vernata 



vernata 



pometaria 

 pometaria 

 pometaria 



pometaria 



pometaria 

 pometaria 



pometaria 

 pometaria 



pometaria 

 pometaria 

 pometaria 

 pometaria 



The corresponding portion of Harris' MS. Catalogue reads, 

 follows : 



129 

 334 



335 



360 



Phalsena 



Geometra 



Apr. 1830. female apterous. Apr. 25. 1834. Apr. 10. 1835. 



perhaps one species. 



1829 female aoterous. Oct. 25. 1831. $ Apr. 25. 1831 



and £ Nov. 1832 Oct. 1835. $ *. Nov. 15. 183V 



$ ? Nov. 1838 $ ? . 



No. 129 comprises one ? pometaria] No. 334 comprises one J 1 , one 

 $ vernata, and one d", one ? pometaria] No. 335 comprises three d\ 

 two ? pometaria] No. 360 comprises one d vernata. Besides these 

 are two <S pometaria collected in Nov., 1848; and two <S pometaria, 

 one d" vernata, without date. 



Fitch, in his Third New York Report, contained in Vol. xvi, of 

 the " Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, for 1856," 

 reverses the names of the species, (§ 38, pp. 342-343). 



In Packard's " Guide to the Study of Insects" (1869), pp. 324- 

 325, A., pjometaria is called A. vernata Peck, and A. vernata is called 

 A. pometaria Harris. The two species are correctly discriminated as 

 forms, although their distinctness is doubted. But the true A, ver- 

 nata <S is figured in connection with the description of the true A. po- 

 metaria <$ . Evidently the intention is the same in the figure of the 

 female. The figure of the female is enlarged, a fact which is not 



