140 



"Oncocnemis" aterrima Grote may fall into Stylopoda, or may be a 

 Pseudacontia. 



"Stylopoda" anxia Smith appears to be a Pseudacontia. 



The authors are indebted to Messrs. Schaus and Heinrich for 

 comparing a specimen with the type of cephalica. 



COPIPANOLIS STYRACIS Gn. 



, Abbot, Ms. pi. cm, . 



1852, Gn., Spec. Gen., V, Noct., I, 357, (larva); id., VII, III, 392, Tcenio- 



campa. 

 1856, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., X, 430, Tcsniocampa. 

 1893, Sm., Bull. U. S. N. M., XLIV, 206, ignot., Tceniocampa. 

 1895, Grt., Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, XIV, 91, Graphiphora. 

 1903, Dyar, Bull. U. S. N. M., V, 613, No. 2045, Graphiphora. 

 1905, Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., V, 613, unrecog., TcEniocampa. 

 1917, B. & McD., Check List, p. 54, No. 1914, Orthosia. 



This species was described from a manuscript plate of Abbot ; 

 which Hampson (1905) states is in the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Guenee (1852) lists food plants, Styrax Americana (Noct. 

 I), and Styrax Iccvigatum (Noct. III). 



Plate No. 103 of the Abbot manuscript plates in the Boston 

 Society figures both larva and adult of a Copipanolis form which 

 agrees with Guenee's description, except that on this plate the food 

 plant has been labeled Styrax grandifolimn, very probably subsequent 

 labeling ; and there seems little doubt, in view of the fact that no plate 

 in the British Museum appears to represent this insect, and no other 

 plate could be found in Boston which agreed with Guenee's descrip- 

 tion, that this Boston plate was the one from which Guenee described 

 the species. The adult figured is a female Copipanolis form, the pri- 

 maries with greyish outer and inner areas, median area browner, the 

 whole figure brown rather than grey. No specimens were available 

 for direct comparison with the figure, and Mr. Cassino twice attempted 

 to photograph the plate, but poor light rendered the photographs of 

 little value. The figure does not appear to represent typical cubilis, 

 but a form closely allied to fasciata which may prove to be a straight 

 synonym. 



Form fasciata occurs with form cnbilis in Pennsylvania, New 

 York, and Illinois. Stigma very probably represents a distinct sub- 

 species or race. Eastern cnbilis is very variable in maculation and 



