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Page 22. The species " 50]^ Connecta, Gr., must be added to Apatela. 



Page 23. The characters given by Dr. Speyer between Funeralis and Alni I have verified. 

 The singular larvae are apparently much more alike than the moths which they produce. 

 The divisions of Apatela are probably of generic value. 



Page 25, sixth line from the bottom, for " distcint " read " distinct." 



Page 26. The following species of Agrotis have not been examined by me : Prcefixa, Digna, 

 Acdivis, Ttisticula, Hortulana, Olivia, Drewseni, Westermanni, Staudingeri, Manifesto., 

 Oblata, Infracta, Fauna, Hero, Umbrata, Okakensis, Elimata, Spissa and Messoria as dis- 

 tinct from Repentis. It is possible that Spccialis is a red form of Wilsonil and Parentalis 

 of Decipiens. Also Chortalis and Aratrix may be forms of one species. 



Page 28. " Oncocnemis Gracillima" is given by printer's mistake as " Gradllinea" in Can. 

 Ent. XIII., 231. Several of my papers published in that journal at about the same time, 

 and during my absence, were not revised by me. In this way " Hadena Perpensa " was 

 printed " Perpenoa. " 



Page 29. The genus Conservula differs from its allies Brotolomia and Trigonophora by the 

 even, entire margin of the primary wings. It is nearer to the latter, agreeing with it in 

 the principal characters, but differing, besides the form of the fore wings, in the body 

 tuftings and the shorter, more pointed males' genita'ia. If we follow Lederer in the disin- 

 tegration of Phlogophora, this genus is necessary, its characters being in fact stronger 

 than those -separating its allies. 



Page 30, first line, for " Gr." read " Hubn." 

 Page 31, No. 676, for " Hubn " read " Hiifii." 



Page 33. A number of specimens sent to me as typical of Cinerea by Prof. Riley, were all 

 Antennata. Prof. Comstock has reared it from larvae destructive to green apples in 

 Niagara County. No Cinerosa or Laticinerea occurred among his specimens. The larva 

 eats large holes in the immature fruit, according to Prof. Comstock's account ; it trans- 

 forms in a cell in the ground, in July, one to three inches below the surface. The moth 

 discloses in September and hibernates. No Cinerosa were noticed by me in Piof. Riley's 

 collection, and I cannot accept his views on these forms. The relationship between 

 Cinerosa and Laticinerea may be closer, but I regard Antennata as a valid species. I sup- 

 pose I was the first to define Cinerosa and Laticinerea in naming them. 



Page 34, No. 836, for " Tigrina" read "Tigris." The genus may be used for this spe- 

 cies alone, the European Virgo not being generically separable from Telesilla according 

 to other Authorities. 



Page 34. The genera Anarta and Lcpipolys should be transferred to p. 36, after Melideptria. 



Page 36. Add No. "966^ Spinosae, Guen," 



Page 37. The genus Euedwardsia is characterized by a frontal projection below an irregu- 

 lar, exserted, cup-like excavation. The vestiture is hairy; the tibioa unarmed. The 

 wings short and broad, with the aoices of primaries produced. The eyes are naked. 

 The genus, which I separate from Xanthothrix, has affinities with Charklea. 



Page 37. To No. 1034 add: " var. Virginalis, Gr," 



Page 38. The species Monetifera of Guenee I take as the type of the genus Herrichia, which 

 has been confounded with the European Eriopus. Form slender ; abdomen not exceed- 

 ing the secondaries, tufted on the dorsal line at base, and especially on third segment. 

 Eyes naked, unlashed. Ocelli. Tibiae unarmed. Vestiture consisting of fl-ittened scales 

 m'ixed with hair. Wings broad, entire; fore wings with the apices a little pointed; 

 outer margin sinuate subapically, full at submedian nervules ; 12-veined; a distinct ac- 

 cessory cell ; 9 out of 8 to apices, about half ihe length of 8 ; cell open ; 3 twice further 

 from 4 than 4 from 5 at base. Hind wings 8-veined ; cell open ; 3 and 4 together from 

 extremity of submedian vein; 5 a little weaker, removed at base for about one-fifth the 

 breadth of cell ; indistinctly connected with the submedian series. The neuration warrants 

 Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer's inference of the distinctness of the genus, and I think places it 

 near Thalpochares and Eustrotia. The species have bright brown primaries, ornamented 

 olten with splashes or lines of silver. The hind wings and abdomen are light gray, con- 

 trasting with the richly colored thorax and primaries. 



I refer the student to my Illustratc-d Essay, Van Voorst, London, 1882, for a recapitulation 

 of the characters of generic value in the Noctuidce ; in my "Check List, 1876, and in 

 different papers these are also given. Secondary sexual characteristics are, as a rule, of 

 peneric value throughout the Suborder. Those who will compare the Genera as estab- 

 lished by Guende, Walker and in Stainton's Manual, with the descriptions I have pub- 

 lished, will see that I have used more characters, following all that has been published in 

 Germany on the subject. My diagnoses have been copied without acknowledgement by 

 a recent writer, who, in the "'Can. Entomologist," has likewise used my generalizations 

 IT the same way, mixing them with some erroneous statements of his own. 



