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No. 485: for „nucicolora" read „micicolor". 



For ?- second copy of the .,Historical Sketch", Salem, 1875, I am ia- 

 debted to the renewed kiiulness of the anthor. The date given by nie in this 

 List (180G^ for the Tentaiuen. ayrees with that given by Mr. Scudder. But 

 the date (iSlSi adopted here for the YerzeichniöS, while sufficient to establish 

 pritirity for Ochseuheimer's fourrh Volume, is presnniably only correct for the 

 tirst five signatures (181G— 18). From Mr. Scndder's researches we may possibly 

 give 1>22 as the date by wbich the first twenty .^^igiiatures wero issned, the 

 entire work being completed by 1827. I am not aware that even the latter 

 date w'ould disturb any namcs adopted here, while the Noctuids, being coucluded 

 on page 282, would fall witliin the first eighteeii signatures, which were 

 probably priiited before the autumn of 1825, Hist. Sketch, 97. Hübner omits 

 to cite arffillacea nnder Aletia, p. 239; the latter terra is used in the Ver- 

 zeichniss for aberrant species of Heliophila. Ou page 2't3 liübncr gives mucens 

 without citation. hence the signature must have been issued before the species 

 appeared in the Zntraege, while confusa is similarly treared on the same page. 

 Mr. Smith dates the first species ,.1825", Cat. 231, and the last „1823", Cat. 232, 

 althongh both, according to Mr. Smith, were issned in the same „Hnudred". 

 The interesting details as to the „systeraatic work" of Mr. Smith (Preface 14, 1. c.) 

 which „neee.<sitated a card catalogne", will not impose upou any one nsing bis 

 work, which as to the sequeuce of the species is a copy of my Lists, except 

 where the genera have beon ,.revised" by Mr. Smith or Mr. Hnlst; while the 

 very numorous miitakes iu the citations, but a small part of which I have had 

 Space to notice here, suggest that the „card System" was either not nnderstood 

 by Mr. Smith or that it leaves too great a „margin for error" to be a really 

 valuable inventioii. 



Certain synonyms (e. g. of messoria) are here omirted. as well as a 

 few doubtful names. C. decora Morr. is a synonym of Tricbosea cavillator 

 Walk., with a wrong locality. Where I have omitted to desiguate the generic 

 type I have not ascertaiued it. To secure uniformity in nomeuclature, the 

 generic types here designated should be accepted, nnless it cau be plainly sbown 

 that in special cases I have made a wrong applicatiou of the generic term. 



