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1112. pulchripennis Grt. California; Colorado. 



1113. graefiana Tepper. California. 



1114. villosa Grt. Colorado; California. 



pauxillus Grt. 



1115. persimilis Grt. Colorado; California. 



1116. sueta Grt. Colorado; California. 



var. californiensis Grt. 



1117. honesta (rrt. Oregon. 



1118. vacciniae Hy. Ed. California. 



1119. oregona Hy. Ed. Colorado; Nevada; Oregon. 



ononisTSm. 



1120. septentrionalis Hy. Ed. „Hudson Bay Territory". 



an ononis? 



Gen. Heliolonche Grt. 1873. 

 Type: H. modii-ella. 



1121. modicella Grt. Colorado; California. 



Gen. Heliosea*) Grt. 1875. 

 Type: H. pictipennis. 



1122. pictipennis Grt. California. 



Gen. HeHophana Grt. 1875. 

 Type: H. mitis. 



1123. niitis Grt. Alabama; Texas. 



obliquata Sm. 



understand the matter, contains only typical Heliothis and the cardui type. 

 However I do not know No. 2577, and Smith seems to consider ononis as 

 belonging to Melaporphyria, a genus I would restrict to immortua. The 

 type of Anthoecia Gn. is also cardui. If Melicleptria cannot hold, besides 

 (iuenees terra, the genus Adonisea with the type pulchripennis mu.^t be 

 cousidered. The future monographi!!;t ot our Heliothinao must go carefuUy 

 to werk. If 1 have made too many genera for hira, I have ;it least given the 

 types of each and the matter must be decided when all the material is got 

 together. My material was never sufficient. 



•) Mr. Smith dc^cribes the fragmentary condition of the type in Brit. 

 Mus. and dclightfuUy remarks that "whether ir was in tliat conditidii when the 

 figure was made I can not say of course". No one calls upon hini for bis 

 opinion, but if he werc honest he must say that the speciinen was surely broken 

 after bring fi^ured, perhaps, as offen happens, tbrough the carclessness of the 

 artibt. I never saw my pretty tyjie broken and am glad 1 have been sjiared 

 the sight. The plates of my Kssay were finished aftn- 1 left London. Smiths 

 object is to cast a reflection upon the condition of some of my types by way 

 of an offset to Morrison's and Walkers. The fact is, and my descrijjfioiis prove 

 it, that my types were nearly all excellent when I described them. Frail insects, 

 like EuHtrotia malaca, will break after 25 years readily on being subjected 

 to wliat Smith call» "the vicissitudes of the voyage" and manipulafion in the 

 British J^liiscuni. Tlie tyjtes of this and B. mitograj)ha, collected by inyself, 

 were absolutely perfect at lirst, in 1872. Jn fact I reraember only two cases 

 of indifferent types, Agrotis dapsilis and Hadcna diversilineata; the 

 latter name 1 have (•an(elled as the siiecinien turns out to have been "patched" by 

 some enterjirising collector. The type of the furnier was brought by my friend 

 Dr. 'J'haxter fr<>ni Florida. It will be a labnur of love for Smith t(j make this 

 out and if lie takes only a tenth part of the trouble he has bestowed upon 

 Walkers miserable s])ecimens an<l worse descriptions he will succeed. If be 

 cannot I will helj» liim. 



