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Leucania unipuncta, Haworth. 



This species has occurred to me very plentifully in New York 

 State, and I have seen it in very nearly every collection submitted to 

 me, from both Eastern and Middle States. The assertion that it is not 

 found in these localities, made by Mr. Walsh in the " Trans, of the Illi- 

 nois Ag. Soc," is, therefore, as incorrect as the premises on which 

 the statement is founded are inadequate to support it. 



ACHATODES, Guenee. 

 Achatodes zese. 



Gortyna zece Harris, Et. Ins. Mass. (1841). 



" 3rd Ed. p. 4.39. PI. 7. fig. 9. (1862). 

 Achatodes sandix Guenee, Noct. 1. p. 132. PI. 6. fig. 4. (1852). 



Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Noct. p. 166. (1856). 



H-S., Con. Blatt. p. 73. (1860). 



On page 432, Proc. Ent, Soc, Phil., 1864, I noted of Dr. Harris' 

 Gortyna zese, that I did not believe it correctly placed under Gorti/na^ 

 not recognizing the species from either Dr. Harris' description or the 

 figure in the 8rd Edit, of Ins. Mass., which latter, while well drawn, is 

 quite wrongly colored, so as to mislead the student as to the species 

 intended. I am again much indebted to F. Gr. Sanborn, Esq., for an 

 opportunity of examining the specimens of Dr. Harris' species, and 

 which prove to belong to Adiatodes sanrUx, Guenee. This genus is 

 readily distinguished from Grortyna by its non-falcate anterior wings. 

 The habits of the larva of the single species known, being an internal 

 feeder in the stems of the Indian corn plant, induced Dr. Harris to 

 I'efer it to the genus Gortijna. M. Guenee refers Achatodes to his 

 family Apamid^, where it is disadvantageously placed, I must think. 

 The genus shows more affinity with the Glottulidse of the same Author, 

 a group of Gortynld genera, with brilliant colors and rounded apices of 

 anterior wings, of which the larvae are internal feeders, and is allied to 

 Euthisanotia Hiibner. (^Philochrysa Grote.) 



Catocala Clintonii, Grote. 



Mr. Walker informs me that a specimen of this species is contained 

 in the Brit. Mus. Coll., and referred to in the Cat. as 0. neogama A. 

 and S. The latter species is, however, quite distinct and much larger. 

 I am unaware that specimens of Abbot and Smith's species, taken in 

 the Southern States, have been compared with our more Northern 



