210 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



1852. Guene'e, Species General, V., 125 : nictitans, luceus, lorea, cuprea, 

 vindelicia, micacea, imiiianis, stramentosa. 



Guenee here adds American species, of wliich one has hairy 

 eyes (lorea); so, following H.-S., I referred it in 1874 to Mamestra. 

 Leiicostigma is placed back in Apainea (1. c. 210); the mixture 

 which is Hydro&cia has lost a FMotropha and gained a Mamestra., 

 and the scientific value of the term, which was originally =0, is 

 unchanged. Micacea is made type, bat this species is preoccupied, 

 tlirough Hiibner in the Verzeichniss, for Gortyna. 



1874. Grote, List of the Noctuidce of North America, Bull. Buf. Soc. 

 Nat. Sci., April, 1S74, iS : nictitans (Linn.), sera, inqufesita, 

 fsalicarum (then unknown to me). Type indicated as nictitans^ 

 and genus correctly dated 1841. The question of whether this 

 genus is valid must depend upon the classificator. It stands or 

 falls with its type. As designated by Guene'e in 1852, it would 

 have the same type with Gortyna, and, of course, it would fall. To 

 save it by the sacrifice of Helotropha, Led., does not seem to me 

 advisable, and, after my action in 1874, perhaps inadmissible. 



Apainea. 



1816. Ochs., Schm. Eur., IV., 75: nictitans (oculea), fibrosa (lecostig- 

 ma), argillacea, unanimis, didyma, ophiogramma, bicoloraria, capti- 

 uncula, suffruncula, latruncula, strigilis, connexa, testacea, basilinea, 

 infesta, cespitis, graminis, leucographa, bella, umbrosa, cuprea. 

 This mixture, for which no description or type is given, belongs to 

 six or seven Ledererian genera. 



1829. Boisd., Eur. Lep. Lidex Method, 76: nictitans (Linn.), occlusa, 

 leucostigma (fibrosa), didyma (v. nictitans, Esp.), v. ophiogramma, 

 furuncula, captiuncula, suffruncula, latruncula, strigilis, connexa, 

 ? leucographa. 



1S40. Boisd., Gen. et Index Meth., 116: strigilis, v. suffruncula, furun- 

 cula, captiuncula, Duponchelii, v. microglossa, eiratricula, tignalis. 

 This further restriction would make the genus = Oligia, Hiibn., 

 type strigilis, but this interferes. 



1837. Guen., Ann. Soc. Ei)t., Fr., I. Ser.,Tom. 6, 333 : nictitans (Linn.), 

 latruncula, captiuncula, furuncula, suffruncula, ophiogramma, didy- 

 ma, unanimis; gemina, infesta, testacea, Dumerilii. 



