garden web worm, Loxostege {Phlyctcenodes) similalis Guen., but may 

 be distinguished by the characters above given. That there need be 

 no confusion of identity an illus- 

 tration of this latter is also intro- 

 duced for comparison (fig. 3). 



NOMENCLATURE AND SYNONYMY. 



Since the original description 

 of Guenee in 1854 (1. c.) which 

 appeared under the genus Sco- 

 pula, the species has been de- 

 scribed under the names Botys 

 oblunaUs Led. (Wien. Ent. Mo- 

 natschrift, 1863, pp. 372, -169), as 

 well as Botis harveyana Grt. , and 

 assigned to various other genera anion 

 taenia, Pyrausta, and Pionea. 



In domestic lists and current literature this species has usually been 

 mentioned as Phlyctcenia ferrugalis Hbn. , but it is at present catalogued 

 by Sir G. F. Hampson (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Feb. 21, 1899, p. 242) 

 as Pionea rubigalis Guen. According to the usage of American sys- 

 tematists this species appears to belong rightfully to Hapalia Ilbn. , a 

 genus which was proposed, though not described, as early as 1827, or 

 twenty-seven years before Guenee's genus Pionea. 



Phlyctcenia rubigalis is, according to Hampson, native to North 

 America and distinct from the Old World, and nearly cosmopolite 

 ferrugalis Hbh. / with which it has until very recently been confounded. 



C CL. 



Fig. 3.— Loxostege similalis: a, larva; b, aide view of 

 middle segment of larva; c, dorsal view anal seg- 

 ment of larva; d, pupa; e, cremaster of pupa; /, 

 moth — a,f, somewhat enlarged; d, twice natural 

 size; b, c, e, more enlarged (from Riley in Ann. 

 Rept. Dept. Agr., 1885). 



which are Margaritia, Phlyc- 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 



Grote's types of Botis harveyana were from New York and Texas. 

 In the National Museum are specimens bearing capture labels of 

 Illinois, 1876, and St. Louis, Mo., 1878. Published records and 

 specimens now in the National collection are in evidence to show that 

 the known distribution, though not cosmopolitan, is very wide, cover- 

 ing nearly our entire country from Canada to the Gulf States and 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The following are the known 

 localities: 



Toronto, Canada; Wading River, L. I. ; Albany (Lintner), Pough- 

 keepsie, Highlands, New York City, and Ithaca, in New York; 

 Libonia, Pa.; New Jersey — throughout the State (J. B. Smith); Lake- 

 land, Kensington, and Garrett Park, Md.-, Tennallytown and Brook- 



1 This latter species is recorded from central and southern Europe, Great Britain 

 and Ireland, Western Asia, India, Ceylon, Burma, Japan, Afghanistan, western and 

 southern Africa. 



