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and do not know how to account for it, unless it be that these eggs wiih 

 thick shells and heavy sculpture, in which these species pass the winter, 

 require to be softened by the carbonic acid washed down by the rain before 

 the young larva can eat its way out. 



THE AUTHORSHIP OF PSEUD AN ARTA. 



BY THE LATE A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



[In our September number, page 257, the late Professor Grote, in his 

 " Corrections and Notes on Dr. Dyar's List of Noctuids," stated : 



" 124. As I have shown in these pages, the citation to Pseudanarta 

 of Hy. Edwards is spurious." At the time he wrote these words he had 

 sent us the following paper, and supposed that it would have been 

 published before these "Corrections" appeared. — Ed. C. E.] 

 The history of the generic term Pseudanarta is as follows : 

 1878. Grote, Bull. U. S. Geo). Surv. 178 : crocea (flava) sole species, 

 and therefore type. 



1882. Grote, New Check List, New York, 27 : flava, var. crocea, 

 singula, flavidens, aurea. The genus is credited without citation to Hy. 

 Edwards, under the mistaken idea, derived from a previous corre- 

 spondence, that this writer had used or described the genus. The name 

 Pseudanarta was originally proposed in letters by Grote for Edwards's 

 Anarta crocea, in which the eyes are naked, the tibife unarmed, and 

 which is, in reality, as originally stated by Grote, allied to Hadena, Led., 

 nee Schrank. 



1889. J. B. Smith, Ent. Amer.. V., 175 : falcata, aurea, flava (crocea), 

 singula, flavidens. The citation to Hy. Edwards is now supplied and 

 reference is made to: " Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. , Vol, 6, p. 133, 1875 " But 

 this page contains the original description of Anarta crocea, and no 

 mention is there made of Pseudanarta. This specific description refers to 

 what is only a probable variety of the previously described Hadena Jlava, 

 Grote. After examination of the communications of Hy. Edwards to the 

 California Academy : "Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, Nos. i to 22" (all 

 published), no mention of Pseudanarta is found in any one of them. This 

 citation by Prof Smith in 1889 justified the subsequent use of Hy. 

 Edwards's name as author in the absence of a verification. The erroneous 

 citation is twice repeated in the Washington Catalogue, p. 148, and must 

 have been made without consulting the text It was probably supplied 

 to support Grote 's incorrect use of Hy. Edwards's name as authority for 

 Pseudanarta in the first instance. 



