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Saperda puncticollis Say. —Breeds in poison-ivy (. Rhus toxi¬ 
codendron). 
Mecas inornata Say. —Bores in the roots and lower part of the 
stems of Helenium tenuifolium , also recorded as living in the shoots of 
willow and poplar. 
Oberea bimaculata Oliv. —Burrows in the stems of blackberry 
and raspberry. 
Oberea schaumii Lee. —Larva bores in the twigs of cottonwood 
(poplar). 
Oberea mandarina Fabr. —Bores in the twigs of poplar. 
Oberea quadricallosa Lee. —Lives in the stems of willow. 
Tetraopes tetraophthalmus Forst. —The larva bores in the 
roots and lower parts of the stem of milkweed ( Asclepias ). The larv?e 
of the other species of the genus probably also live in a similar manner. 
Dysphaga tenuipes Hald. —Breeds in dead limbs of hickory. 
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NOTE ON GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND 
MIMICRY OF APATELA. 
By A. Radcliffe Grote, A. M. 
The majority of the species of Apatela occur in North America, 
where their range is extraordinarily extended, since they are found from 
Hudson’s Bay territory in the north to the tropical regions in Mexico; 
they appear to be absent from the West Indies. From North America, 
north of Mexico, sixty species are described, the European fauna has a 
total of fifteen (consult Grote, Die Verwandtschaft zwischen der Noc- 
tinden-Fauna von Nordamerika und Europa, Gerhandl. Gesell. Deutsch. 
Naturf. und Aerzte, Bremen, 1890). A surprising number of species 
have been collected in Bastrop Co., Texas, by Belfrage; from this State 
twelve species are recorded. From California only four species are cer¬ 
tainly known, perdita , spinea, lupini , felina ; the last is, according to 
Dr. Dyar, an Acronycta , the second and third I have referred to a dis¬ 
tinct subgenus, Merolonche , but, after seeing the European menyanthidis , 
it appears possible to me that spinea is congeneric or, at least, related. 
The bulk of the species are found over the temperate regions of the 
South American Continent, from Lower Canada to the Gulf; from New 
