Noctuidae 
(3) Charadra decora Morrison, Plate XVII, Fig. 29, $, 
(The Dandy.) 
Syn. felina Druce. 
This is likewise a Mexican species, which is said to occur 
in Arizona, but the fact of its being found there requires 
verification. 
One other species of the genus, C. dispulsa Morrison, occurs 
in the Southern States. 
Genus RAPHIA Hubner 
(1) Raphia frater Grote, Plate XVIII, Fig. 3, $ . (The 
Brother.) 
Syn. per sonata Walker; flexuosa Walker. 
There are three species belonging to this genus in our 
fauna. They are closely alike in appearance. The species we 
figure occurs in the Eastern States. R. abrupta Grote is also 
an eastern species, while R . coloradensis is found in the West. 
Genus APATELA Hubner 
This is a large genus, well represented in the temperate 
regions of both the Old World and the New. The latest 
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the United States credits our 
fauna with seventy-five species. The genus has been mono¬ 
graphed by Smith & Dyar. (See Proceedings U. S. Nat. Museum, 
Vol. XXI, pp. 1-104.) Within the compass of these pages we 
cannot do more than give a representation of a number of the 
forms, which have been described, leaving the student to 
further researches in the readily accessible literature of the 
subject. 
(1) Apatela americana Flarris, Plate XVIII, Fig. 12, 
(The American Dagger-moth.) 
Syn. acericola Guenee; obscura Henry Edwards; aceris Abbot & 
Smith (non Linnseus). 
This is one of the largest species of the genus. 
The caterpillar feeds upon deciduous trees of many genera, 
and the insect occurs from New England to Utah and south 
to the Gulf States. 
(2) Apatela dactylina Grote, Plate XVIII, Fig. 17, $. 
(The Fingered Dagger-moth). 
Easily distinguished from the preceding species, which it 
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