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wanting. The description is thus additionally useless for identification, 

 and the name so founded should be dropped. 



A. hamamelis, Guen. 



This identification was given us by Guenee. It now seems probable 

 that Guenee had "mixed up" the species, and that " a very dark form of 

 what we call hamamelis being easily confounded with afflida," Guenee 

 sent an afflida to Doubleday and kept his other type, a dark hamamelis- 

 The rule would then in any event validate afflida as being properly 

 differentiated. The two species would stand : 



i. A. afflida, Grote. 



= A hamamelis, Guen., in pars (spec, as type in Coll. B. Mus.). 

 2. A. hamamelis, Guen., in pars (spec, in Coll. Guen.). 



= A. inclara, Sm. 

 It would prevent much confusion if the names as above were 

 retained. 



A. haesitata, Grote. 



This name is now validated. It was evidently owing to my remark 

 in Psyche that Sm. and Dyar positively made the name a synonym of 

 clarescens. I then admitted the possibility, referring to Mr. Butler's 

 identifications, that clarescens might have been founded on a large pale 

 hamamelis ( = inclara). This brief characterization covers very well and 

 suggests my haesitata. 



A. clarescens, Guen. 



The identification of this species by me in American collections is 

 now validated. Guenee, at the time, in comparing his type with my 

 material, was a little doubtful. But I thought, on the whole, that he was 

 satisfied with the determination, so I adopted it and labeled my example. 



A. increta, Morr. 



I wish to say here that any jumbling of the species in Coll. B. Mus. is 

 not my work. The rearrangement of Mr. Walker's material is the work of 

 Mr. Butler, whom Mr. Tutt, and, indeed, Prof. Smith as well, has criticised 

 for his want of familiarity with the Noctuida?. Mr. Walker had no type 

 labels. The sorting out of specimens as his "types" is therefore uncertain 

 at Mr. Butler's hands, especially in the cases which occurred where more 

 than one species was placed by Mr. Walker over one printed label. The 



