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Caradrina mantalini Smith. 



Agrotis nanalis Grote. (Barnes and McDunnough, Contr. Nat. 

 Hist. Lep. N. Am., Vol. I, No. 4, p. 5, pi. I. f. 12.) 



Mantalini was described from "two females," from Colo. 

 (Bruce), and Glenwood Springs, Colo. (Barnes). My notes 

 say that both types are males. Dr. Barnes has the Glenwood 

 Springs type, and the other is in the Washington collection, 

 where are also two females from Nevada Co., Calif., each bear- 

 ing the museum red "type" label, though they can't be types on 

 the strength of it. Grote's type of nanalis is a male from Ne- 

 vada, though Smith's copy in the Agrotid Bulletin of Grote's 

 description reads female. Messrs. Barnes and McDunnough's 

 reference is perfectly correct, and the synonymy has been 

 known to Sir George Hampson for some time. The species 

 has strongly spined tibiae, and is not a near relation to 

 Caradrina miramda with which Smith associated it. Hampson 

 places nanalis in L\cophotia Hbn., of which he makes Pcri- 

 droma Hbn., and Setagrotis Smith, synonyms. 



Caradrina spilomela Walk. 



This is not in Smith's list, but stands in Dyar's catalogue as 

 prior to conviva Harv., and is figured by Holland. Hampson 

 makes triplex Walk., a still prior name, and adds contrana 

 H.-S., and subaquila Harv. to the synonymy. The types of all 

 except contraria are in the British Museum. Triplex is a badly 

 worn female from Honduras. I have no note of its color. 

 Spilomela is an Ai specimen, a yellowish female from Haiti. 

 Conviva is a Texas male, about the color of extlma, and sub- 

 aquila, also a Texas male, is very dark reddish, and is the "ab 

 2" of Hampson. It appears to be a very variable species in- 

 habiting the Southern States, Central America, and the West 

 Indies. The synonymy may as well be accepted. Hampson 

 makes it the type of his new genus Micrathctis, in which he 

 places only two other species, dasarada Druce, from the same 

 general region, though not yet recorded from north of Mexico, 

 and camfimbria Walk., from Brazil. 



