CATALOGUE OF NOCTUIDJE SMITH. 329 



The species was described from a design by Abbot and lias no type. 

 So far as I am aware it basnot been identified. Its recognition will be 

 possible from the life history. 



Genus MAGUS A Wlk. 

 1857. Wlk., C. B. Mu.s., Het,, xi, 762. 



M. divaricata Grt.* 



1874. Grt., Sixth Kept. Peab. Ac. Sci., 37, Slictopiera. 



1875. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., n, 281, Stivtoptcra. 



HABITAT. Wisconsin; New York; Florida; Texas in December. 



The type is in the British Museum. The species belongs to Mayusa 

 rather than Stictoptera, and is very close to the Mayusa dissidents Feld. 

 and Rog., if not indeed the same. The latter species is in the Berliner 

 Museum, in which I had a chance to compare typical Stictoptera. 

 Moeschler has described a very closely allied species from the West 

 Indies as a Lapliyyma. 



Genus CATOCALA Schrank. 

 1802. Schrank, Fauna Boica, n, 2, 158. 



In this genus I have made no original studies and no comparisons. 

 The species have been great favorites with collectors, and much has 

 been written concerning their habits and variations. Mr. Grote and Mr. 

 Hy. Edwards have devoted special attention to the genus; and, lastly, 

 Dr. Hnlst has given a monographic revision in the Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society, vn, pp. 15-56, 1884, in which the 

 species are separated on structural peculiarities. This revision is fol- 

 lowed here in essentials, and must be consulted in any study of the 

 genus. The departures from the order given in the publication cited 

 are all such as Dr. Hulst has himself suggested in the check list of 

 Lepidoptera edited by me. I have not kept up my references as care- 

 fully in this genus as in some others, but I do not think I have omitted 

 anything really important. A great many mere notes of captures and 

 of habits are not referred to, though interesting in themselves and val- 

 uable to the student of geographical distribution. I did not examine 

 the British Museum series, and therefore am not to be considered as 

 indorsing the correctness of any synonymy given. My notes concern- 

 ing the location of type specimens are meager, but there are few genera 

 in which the literature is so good and the reference to actual types so 

 seldom necessary. Most of the Hulst types are in the Rutgers College 

 collection. Mr. Grote and Mr. Edwards have both examined the 

 British Museum collection, and their references are probably accurate. 



