With regard to the synonymy adopted, the oldest not preoccupied 

 names have been preferred, and I have endeavored to restore all the 

 generic names originally proposed by Hubner and afterwards partly 

 misapplied by, or wrongly credited to Treitschke. In the synonymy 

 reference is made to Hiibner's " Tentamen," a Paper published by 

 the author anterior to the " Yerzeichniss," and alluded to by Ochsen- 

 heimer in his fourth volume. We are obliged to Mr. S. H. Scudder 

 for the reprint of the rare paper. 



Hubner's works need not my praise, else freely given. The stu- 

 dent who has read the foreword to the Verzeichniss, dated the 

 twenty-first of September, 1816, from Augsburg, and does not 

 honor its author, must be either obtuse or prejudiced; from such 

 an one Hubner will not appeal in vain to our future understanding. 



Channing writes of Thoreau, the thorough Naturalist : " His 

 docility was great, and as the newest botanies changed the name of 

 Andromeda to Cassandra, he accepted it, and became an accomplice 

 to this tragic deed." Thoreau, then, did not, as some professed 

 Naturalists, advertise his grievances in this respect. Elsewhere 

 Thoreau writes : " With the knowledge of the name comes a dis- 

 tincter knowledge of the thing." 



Our only hitherto published list of the Noctuidae is contained in 

 the Catalogue issued by the Smithsonian Institution in May, 1860. 

 This was compiled by Dr. Jno. G. Morris, and I only hope I have 

 brought to my work a tithe of the enthusiasm and industry dis- 

 played by my respected friend, to whom I dedicate the present List. 



For donations of material, or for personal kindness and courtesy, 

 I am under obligations to Professor Zeller of Stettin, to Prof. A. S. 

 Packard, Jr., of Salem, to Mr. J. Behrens of San Francisco, to Mr, 

 J. A. Lintner of the State Museum, Albany, to Mr. 0. Meske of 

 Albany, to Mr. H. K. Morrison of Old Cambridge, to Prof. 0. S. 

 Westcott of the High School, Chicago, to Prof. C. V. Riley, State 

 Entomologist of Missouri, to Mr. W. II. Stultz of Easton, Pa., to 

 Mr. Chas. A. Blake, of Philadelphia, to Prof. S. H. Peabody of the 

 Mass. Agricultural College, to Mr. Theo. L. Mead of New York, 

 to Mr. E. L. Graef of Brooklyn, L. L, to Mr. Jas. Pettit of Grimsby, 

 Ontario, to Mr. Wm. H. Saunders of London, Ontario, to Prof. 

 Townend Glover of the Agricultural Department, Washington, to 

 Mr. J. II. Oomstock, Cornell University, to M. F. X. Belanger, Laval 

 University, to Prof. F. H. Snow of the Kansas State University, and 

 to Dr. Leon F. Harvey and Mr. Ileni-y S. Spnigue of Buffalo. 



