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392. orbiculata Sm. Colorado. 



Gen. Cladoeera Rbr. 1839. 

 Type: C. optabilis. 



393. niveivenosa Grt.*) Montana: Colorado. 



Gen. Apamea Ochs.**) 1816. 

 Type: A. testacea. 



394. stipata Morr. Maine to Colorado. 



395. passer Guen. Canada to Colorado; Oregon. 



viralis Grt. 

 loculata Morr. 

 var. couspicua Morr. 



396. burgessi Morr. Mass. to Arizona. 



discors Grt. 



397. longula Grt. New Mexico; Nevada; Washington. 



Gen. Xylena Hubn.***) 1806. 

 Type: X. lithoxylea. 

 *= Xylophasia Steph. 1829. 



398. remissa Hübn. Eastern to Southern States. 



iudocilis Wliv. 



399. separans Grt. New Yoriv to Wisconsin. 



ducta i] Smith. 



400. suffüsca Morr. Canada to Texas. 



illata + Grt. 



401. apaniiformis Gn. Canada to Colorado. 



contenta Wlk. (Hadena.) 



*) Referred by Smith to Hadena Auct. where it cannot remain oa 

 acconnt of the smooth imtnfted linear body. The eyes are naked and the 

 ornamentation is likeAgrotis where I lirst referred the species frum a sin^le 

 female specimen which I was oblig'ed to return. I could not at the time 

 clearly make out the structure of the folded leg-s, which I now heuere were 

 unarmed, I consider the moth as the American Western representative of the 

 European C. optabilis, and think that the male will be found to have pluraose 

 autennae. 



**) SeeGrote, Bull. Buff. S. N. S. 54, 1874. This genus is often credited 

 to Treitschke, but it is founded in Ochsenheimer 4, 75. l'nder Lederer's 

 restriction one species oriffinally inclnded viz: testacea, becomes the tyjte of 

 Apamea Ochs., in sensu Led., Stand. Cat. 98. I do not know the type of 

 Luperina Boisd. 1829, but none of Boisduval's original species of Luperina 

 are included by Lederer or Staudinger under this name. Lederers genus mii.^t 

 be known, except H a w o r t h i i , as L e d e r e r i a Grt. 1 874. So f ar as I am able 

 to judge, onr N. American species are congeneric witli testacea, for instance 

 burgessi (discors). I proposed at one time tu take nictitans as 

 the type of Apamea; but Lederer's prior action seems to fix testacea as 

 the type I have been at some pains to fix the types and the correct generic 

 synonymy in the Noctuidae and this work has been here and there adopted but 

 largely disregarded by Smith who seems to •io ujion the principle that prioriry 

 has its Chief value w'hen the British Museum coli, and Lists cau be used to 

 destroy one of my names and that the researches of otlier writers than himself 

 can be disregarded at bis pleasure. 



***) See Grote Buff. Check List, 37, 1876. Also Tr. V., 107, 1825. In 

 the absence of material Smith's exteusion of the genas is here foilowed. 



