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ous husilur niys, in tlii' luiigur uiul licttrr delined line in cell i, uiid 

 in the ubsencc of the rorrnginous sliade over the interno-lnisihir 

 portion of the wing. It is larger than vetusta, given by Gnenee at 

 5G ni.m. expanse, but- in an example before me, from the collection 

 of Mr. 0. Meske, measuring only 1.90 in. (47 m. ni.). A $ and 9 

 example of the European exoleta, also of the collection of Mr. 

 Meske, measure respectively 2.50 in. and 2 in., — the ? being ab- 

 normally small. 



Cal. nupera is represented in fig. 15 of a photographic plate of 

 "Noctuidae, No. 2. Collection of J. A. Lintner," which has been 

 distributed to a limited extent. It is also figured in No 24 of plate 

 82 of Glover's Lepidoptera, representing examples from the " col- 

 lection of W. Saunders, London, 0. W.," as vetusta (Glover MS.). 

 It is inferentially the species recorded in the Grote List, p. 27, as 

 vetusta of Europe and America, and the one cited by the same au- 

 thor in the Sixth Ann. Rep. Peab. Inst., p. 22. It may also be pre- 

 sumed to be i\\Q vetusta of the Morris Catalogue, published in 18G0, 

 the source, perhaps, of the subsequent erroneous determinations. 



