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Telesii.la Navia Harvey. 



No doubt exists in ni}' mind thai this is very different from Cincreola 

 hy its pallid, ochrey color, its darker median field narrowing inferiorly, 

 bulging out opposite cell and better defined on l)Oth sides from the rest of 

 the wing. The shape of the t. \). line is thus different from Cuiereola, 

 running in more below median vein. Mr. Morrison's species of Telesilla 

 is Guenee''s Galgiila. and does not belong here at all. 



SCOLF.COCAMPIX.K. 



Under this sub-family name 1 arrange Doryodcs, Eiicalyptcra. Scolcco- 

 caiiipa. Phiprosopiis. Cilia and Aniolita. 



In mv opinion, the genera of our N. Am. Noctuidte are well enough 

 defined in my writings, and in part in Guenee's, to arrange our species. 

 A\'hat is needed is a nearer study of our fauna with the European. A 

 merely arbitrary change in the location of the genera gives a color to a 

 wide divergence in appreciation of character, which can no longer exist, 

 since all the natural characters ha\ c been exposed by me. I have gradu- 

 ally changed the basis in literature of Guenee's genera and worked out 

 their association in groups, which shed a light over the mass of forms in 

 discussing them, but are sub-families without strong exclusive characters. 

 ^\'ider or more pointed wings, longer legs, or an exaggeration of character 

 mark, for instance, Scolecocampa as compared with Dory odes, but the linear 

 body, oblique palpi, (often smoky at the sides in this group) the dots on 

 reniform. the pointed apices and slender feet, mark the group as a whole. 

 In Soita the body is flat, the wings are Crambiform. It is a different 

 type, and I leave it with Nonagria for the present The body is nowhere 

 so long and linear ( C/iiloform) as in Doryodes and allies. 



I refer the student to my paper on Cilia distema (Am. Ent. i, loo), 

 where I show the aftinity of Scolccocanpa. Eucalyptcra, Cilia, Aniolita 

 and Doryodes, all of which were known to me in nature. For this group, 

 which I remo\e out of the N'oitagriiuce M., I propose the term Scolcco- 

 canipiiiLe. The structural differences V)etween Liburna and Bipiuicta are 

 very slight, although there is so much difference in size ; Obscitra seems 

 intermediate in this respect. I do not know, as I have elsewhere said, 

 Thaumatopsis loiigipalpiis. It cannot, I think, be Cilia distriiia. which 

 is a pallid bipunctate form, without the median longitudinal sIkuIc which 

 is characteristic of Doryodes, is marked in Aniolita-, and faint in Eiica- 



