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1952
The Lepidopterists' News
111
tainly was intended to include the species io, even though not formally cited. And by the way, our Io moth is printed Jo by CRAMER.
(P. 469, near middle of second column). Read pagenstecheri.
(P. 477). Note that in the Saturnia group the larvae again give good evidence. In the true Saturnia and a few relatives the larva has bristly knobs, much like cecropia and even more like Eupackardia calleta. In Dictyoploca and Caligula they are densely hairy, and should certainly stand as a separate genus, though Cricula is somewhat transitional, with both knobs and hair. Rhodinia, which seems to belong with them superficially, clearly goes with Antheraea, etc., on early stages, with a dense (not lace) cocoon and an unpaired knob on the eighth segment of the abdomen. Copaxa canella, as figured by BURMEISTER, shows the long clubbed setae of Saturnia pyri, and we have its suitable lace cocoon.
(P. 409). Note that Aglia has two species, the Japanese A. japonica Leech, with a minute eyespot on the fore wing, being quite distinct from the mainland A. tau, with all eyespots very large.
(P. 499). I would certainly list Callosamia with three species, since C. securifera M. & W. (= Carolina Jones) shows no sign of intergrading with angulifera.
William T. M. Forbes
Department of Entomology, Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y., U. S. A.
A REVISION OF THE GENUS ANNAPHILA GROTE (LEPIDOPTERA, PHA-LAENIDAE). By Frederick H. Rindge & Xlaude I. Smith. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, vol. 98: pp. 187-256, 8 figs. 30 Jan. 1952. Available fiom: American Museum of Natural History, New York 24, N. Y., U.S.A., in paper cover, $1.00.
This genus of beautiful little day-flying noctuids is becoming a collector's favorite (see Sala, in Lep. News, vol. 4: p. 71; 1951), but accurate determinations were not possible for most specimens until Dr. RlNDGE finished this revision after the sad accidental death of Mr. SMITH in 1949. The revision is in the orderly style of all the RlNDGE papers, with convenient tables of distribution and flight periods, keys to adult wings, and male and female genitalia, and full synomies and detailed descriptions of all species and subspecies. Annaphila is known only from western North America. In this revision the genus is subdivided into two subgenera, Proannaphila (new) and Annaphila. Of the nineteen species here recognized, six are described as new, and new subspecies are named for two others. The larvae of only four species are known, all described in this paper for the first time as a result of the careful work of WILLIAM H. EVANS. One new species is appropriately named for Mr. EVANS. Drawings illustrate the 8 genitalia of eighteen species and the 9 genitalia of all nineteen.
With this usable revision available there is an added incentive for field lepi-dopterists to take special care in watching for Annaphila in late winter and early spring, especially in western states other than California.
C. L. Remington
Osborn Zoological Lab., Yale University
New Haven, Conn., U.S.A.