CATALOG!'!-: <>!' NOCTUIDJE - SMITH. 231 



X. patefacta AVlk. 



1858. Wlk.. ('. I!. Mil*.. I Id., XIV, IT::::, Xylina. 

 HABITAT. ( 'anada. 

 The type is at Oxford, in the Saunders collection.t 



Genus NYSTALEA Gn. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Gni., Noct., II, 122. 



N. Indiana Grt. 



1884. Grt., Papilio, iv, 7, 



1891. Smith, List Lepidoptera, 50, an Bombi/cia ? 



HABITAT. Indian Eiver, Florida. 



The type is in Mr. Nemmegen's collection. I have seen it and be- 

 lieve it a Bowbycid, but have not had an opportunity of studying- the 

 specimen. It is certainly not a Nystatea, of which I saw several species 

 in the Berliner Museum. 



Genus MORRISONIA Grt. 

 1874. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., u, 53. 



The genera HForrisonia and Xylomiyes have been monograph ically 

 treated by me in the Proc. U. S. National Museum for 189li, vol. xv, 

 pp. 04-86. All the species are there described; but specific reference 

 to this paper is here made only when necessary to accredit a species or 

 authenticate a generic change. 



M. mucens Hbn.* 



1816. Him., Verzetchniss, 243, Septis. 



1825. Hbu., Zutr:ege, in, 25, f. 415, 416, Septis. 



1852. Gu., Spec. Gen., Noet., i, 142, Xylophasia. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Met., ix, 177, Xylophasia. 

 1861. H. Sch., Corr. Blatt, n, 74, Xylomiges. 



1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 110, Hadena. 



1874. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., u, 28, Xylomiges. 



1879. Grt., Cau. Ent., xi, 206. Mamcutra. 



1880. Grt., Can. Ent., xn, 117, Mamextra. 



1892. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xv, 79, Morrisonia. 

 xiiH<tt(i. Wlk. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xi, 759, Xylina. 



HABITAT. Middle, Southern, and Central States; Texas, March 10 

 to April 12 ; Missouri, March 25 to April 19. 



The type of spoUata is in the British Museum and is this common 

 Southern species. The locality given was "East Florida." 



M. rileyaiia Smith.* 

 1890. Smith, Ent. Amer., vi, 212, Morrison ia. 



HABITAT. Missouri in April ; Texas in March. 

 The type is in the National Museum. 



t Mr. Schaus has sent me a figure which proves the species a good one, allied to 

 innominuta m., (signosat Grt.). I have a specimen from Canada. 



