List of \orlli Aiiiericaii 



Enpteroliäae, PtiMontae, Thyaliriäae, ApateMae anfl Aplik. 



By 

 A. Radcliffe Grote A. M. 



Preface. 



The family name Agrotidae is proposed iustead of tbe usual 

 terra Noctuidae, since the generic title Noctua is preoccupied. 

 The subfamilies Catocaliiiae and Deltoidinae are not given. No 

 thorough rearrangement has been possible froni want of material, 

 above all in the absenre of a knowledge of the earlier stages. The 

 present List ainis to give the proper application of the oldest generic 

 names and to fix the exact types. It also corrects Mr. J. B. Smith's 

 Catalogue of 1893 in detail and rejects the incorrect names „Feltia 

 subgothica", and „Maniestra cristifera" proposed by this writer. 

 The name „Feltia" was improperly described and is in any event 

 a synornym, while the species itself is not identical with the 

 European Agrotis subgothica of Haworth; cur species shoiild 

 be known as Agrotis (Agronoma) jaciilifera Guenee. Mr. Smith's 

 comj)ilation chiefly differs from my earlier works in the restitution 

 of additional names irrecognisably founded by Mr. Walker, based on 

 a comparison of „tyi)es'* in the collection of the British Museum 

 after the material had been rearranged by Mr. Butler. I luive shown, 

 Can. Ent. XXVI, 143, the absolute proof, that the specimen originally 

 described by AValker as „Acronvcta cristifera" is not the 

 specimen now shown as Walker's type. Not only does Walker's text 

 positively contradirt the referenco, but my notes, written while the 

 original .sj)ecimen was in place, cover Walker's text as far as they 

 go. The specimen now shown as Walker's „type", is, on the other 

 band, to a certainty, the „type" of Mr. Walker's „Mamestra 

 brassicae", a species not occurring in North America, but formerly 

 taken into our lists on the strcngth of this erroneous identilication 

 of our Mamestra lubens with the European form, to whicli it bears 

 a casual rcscmblance. Since a considerable !iumi)er of Walker's 

 „types" had been originally examined by nie and bis names so far 

 restored, my references having been generally conti rmed by Mr. Smith, 



