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Psyche 6:512, 1891.

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512 PSYCHE. [September 1893.
For this form, the varietal name
amelaina would seem not inappropri-
ate. They closely resemble S. Zati-
ĺ´penni in general coloration.
Genus El-pis Dyar.
I have to cor-
rect a statement in my description of
this genus (Ent. news, iv, 36). The
median spurs of the hind tibiae are
not absent as the wording implies,
but are situated close to the posterior
pair (pi. 19, fig 4 c) . The genus differs from Neoarctia in the shape of the
front of the head, which is narrowed
above and below, while in Neoarctia
it is broad and square. Fig. 4 b shows
vein 7 of secondaries furcate, as it was in one specimen. I am now of the
opinion that Antarctia vagans Boisd.
would be better placed in Elpis than
in Spilosoma, since it has the ocelli
distant from the eyes and the front
narrowed above and below, though
the vestiture and coloration are more
like Spilosoma. I am greatly in-
debted to Mr. Thomas E. Bean of
Laggan, Alberta for several specimens
of Neoarctia beunii, from which the
drawings on the plate were made
(fig. 5 a-e).
Fig. la. S'fiilosoma virg-ifiica; venation of primary.
16. Same ; venation of secondary.
IC. Same; hind tibia, showing spurs.
2. Phragmatobia rt~bricosa; venation.
3a. Pyrriiarcfia isabella, venation of
primary.
3.5. Same ; abnormal venation.
3c. Same ; abnormal venation (partial).
3d. Same; venation of secondary.
3e. Same ; venation of secondary (partial) 36 Same; origin of subcostal venules
(abnormal).
3g. Same; origin of subcostal venules
(normal).
3h. Same; three joints of f antenna.
43 E@is rubra; venation of primary.
46. Same; venation of secondary, show-
ing variation.
4c. Same; hind tibia, showing spurs.
.
5a. Neoarctia bean* venation ofprimary.
55. Same; venation of secondary.
5c. Same; hind tibia, showing spurs.
5d. Same; base of (? antenna.
se. Same; three joints of 2 antenna.
LOCAL NOTES.- The Peabody academy of
science of Salem has recently transferred to the entomological department of the Museum of comparative zoology of Cambridge a num- ber of types of insects of various orders described by Dr. Packard; the types were in the exhibition cases at Salem and were
overlooked when the greater part of the
entomological collections of the Academy were deposited in Cambridge.
In Psyche v. 6, p. 316 it is- noted that the volume on the animals and plants of Maine prepared by the late Dr. John W. Randall was unpublished. Recently we learned that the manuscript was placed in the hands of the Maine geological survey for publication and was subsequently lost. Dr. Randall's collection of insects was entirely destroyed many years ago. It may not be uninterest- ing to state that the Boston society of nat- ural history received from Dr. Randall's estate the sum of $5000,- the income of
which, in accordance with the wishes of
Miss Randall, will be devoted to the library. The gypsy moth has been found in Frank-
lin Park, West Roxbury, outside the limits of the hitherto infected district as mapped two years ago.




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