Noctuidae 
for purposes of illustration. The specific name mynesalis was 
originally applied to the insect by Walker. Subsequently Grote 
gave it the name lixalis. The cut hereto annexed was drawn 
from Walker’s type, which is contained in the collections of the 
British Museum. The moth ranges from Pennsylvania to Illinois 
and southward to the Gulf of Mexico.. 
Genus HETEROGRAMMA Guenee 
(i) Heterogramma pyramusalis Walker, Plate XXXVII, 
Fig. 26, ? . 
Syn. gyasalis Walker; rurigena Grote. 
The species is found from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and 
westward to the region of the Great Plains. It is the only species 
in the genus. 
Genus GABERASA Walker 
(1) Gaberasa ambigualis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 2, o . 
Syn. bifidalis Grote; indivisalis Grote. 
The male moth has the fore wings bifid. Grote described the 
female, which has not bifid wings, under the name indivisalis. 
The moth occurs from Canada to Texas. 
Genus DIRCETIS Grote 
There are two species of the genus which are found within 
our borders. We give in the cut a figure of the type of Grote’s 
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