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references. The first must bo .ulded to ErOtyla apicelhi, on jiaj^e 

 37, line 24 of the List as follows: 



Agrophila truncatula Zell., Verb. z.-b. Gcsl-IL, 1873, S. 3, T. 3, fig. 1. 



The second to Metoponia obtnsa, on page 37, line 35 of the List, 

 as follows : 



Met&ponia obtusula Zell., Vbrli. z.-b. Gesell., 1873, S. 4, T. 3, fig. 2. 



I have received the Transactions of the New York Agricultural 

 Society for 18G7, in which Dr. Fitch gives an account of the imma- 

 ture stages of Rhodophora florida Guenec, on pp. 900-904. Dr. 

 Fitch also describes as new Alaria volupia from "the Indian Terri- 

 tory west of Arkansas," on page 907. I have distinguished the two 

 genera in my List on the peculiarity of the armature of the fore 

 tibiae of Jlorida mentioned by Guenee, p. 171, Noct. 2, as also on 

 the different cut of tli^ wings. In the absence of any structural 

 details it is impossible to refer Dr. Fitch's vohqna Avith certainty, 

 but, while I express the opinion with diflfidence, not having seen Dr. 

 Fitch's type, I believe that Dr. Fitch may have described Oria san- 

 guinea Geyer under the new name. 



In Wood's Index Entomologicus Ophiusa crassiuscula, PI. 17, fig. 

 436, very probably represents Drasteria erechtea $ , and should be 

 added to the synonymy of that species in the " List," p. 38. It 

 seems also that Erasiria apicosa, PI. 17, fig. 454 is the same as Eu- 

 strotia nigritula {G^ienee). of my "List." The former name is the 

 oldest, so that the species will have to stand : 



apicosa {Haw.) {Phytometra) ; Steph., Haust. 3, p. 119 (Erastria) ; Wood In, 

 Ent., 74, PI. 17, fig. 464; Erastna nigritula Guen., Noct. 3, p. 229, PI. 

 10, fig 7 ; Miana undulifera Walk., C. B. M. Noct. p. 258.* 



In an endeavor to account for tlie relations between the existing 

 European and American Noctuidous faunae we shall have to con- 

 sider first the species that may have been artificially introduced by 

 commerce. I think that Heliothis annigera may have to be included 

 under this head; it seems to be rather a southern and eastern Euro- 



* This article, to Uiis point, w:is printed luid issued October 21st, 1S74, in a separate foiui, 

 pp 1-7— .1. It. Grote. 



