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I have here adopted as correct almost all the fresh references. For 

 what is needed is agreement and a clear synonymy, although the 

 application of any of Mr. Walker's naraes to our species is very 

 rarely warranted by the description pubh'shed. Where the text, 

 however, distinctly contradicts the „types" now exhibited, the latter 

 should be rejected as spurious, since a specific title is founded in 

 literature, not, as Mr. Smith would have us believe, in a labelled 

 specimen. There is room for error occasioned by the shifting of 

 the original material by Mr. Butler; consult alsoMr. Tutt's observations, 

 Can. Ent. XXVI, 228. "When I eomnienced work in 1862, not a dozen 

 species of Owlet Moths were named in any collection, public or 

 private, in North America. Twenty years later, in 1882, I issued 

 a list of over 1400 names, most of which had been identified by 

 me, many figured and nearly half originally dcscribed, For the present 

 arrangement of the Ptilodontidae I am indebted to the able work 

 of Neumoegen and Dyar. I add this uote to my finished manuscript 

 February 7"», 1895, expressiug at the same time my thanks to 

 Mr. D. Alfken of the Bremen Museum for his kind assistance. I 

 am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Harrison G. Dyar for notes on 

 two species of which my original descriptions were lost. For the 

 superfamily Noetuina of Dyar I propose the term Agrotina. 



Farn. Eupterotidae. 



= Eupterotae Hübn. 1818. 



Subfam. Apatelodiiiae N. & D. 1894. 

 Gen. Apatelodes Pack. 1864. 

 Type: A torrefacta. 



1. torrefacta Abb. & Sm. Canada to Gulf States. 



var. floridana Hy. Ed. 



2. angelica Grt. Canada to Gulf States. 



hyalinopuncta Pack, 

 var. indistincta Hy. Ed. 



Farn. Ptilodontidae. 



= Ptilodontes Hübn. 1806. 

 = Notodontidae Auct. 



Family type: Ptilodon camelina L. 

 Subfam. Ptilodontinae. 

 = Notodontinae N. & D. 1894. 

 Gen. Notodonta Ochs. 1810. 

 = Peridea Steph. 1828. 



1. elegans Streck. Canada; Northern States; Rocky Mts. 



var. grisea Streck, 

 notaria Hy. Ed. 



2. stragula Grt. Atlantic States to Rocky Mts.; California. 



var. manitou N. & D. 

 var. pacifica Behr. 



