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*GORTYNA Hubn.ilSOQ). 



Type : Noctua micacea Esper. 



S. g. *APAMEA OcAs. (1816). 



Type : Noctua nictitaus Linn. 



purpuripennis Grote, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Phil., 1874, p. 208. 



seni {G. & R.), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phil., 1, 345, PI. 7, fig. 55 {Hydroecia) ; 



Grote Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil., 1874, p. 206 {Apamea). 

 t Salicarum {Barnston), C. B. M. Noct., 717 {Hydroecia). 

 * nictitaus (Linn.); Guen. Noct. 1, p. 127 {Uydroecia). 

 Tar. erythrostigma {Haworth). 



S. g. *GORTTNA Huhn. (1806). 



Type : Noctua micacea Esper. 



inquaesita G. <& R., Trans. Am. Ent. S., 1, 344. 



[Note. — From Massachusetts, Prof. Peabody, Mr. Thaxter ; sometimes the 

 spots are partly white on primaries.] 



purpurifascia G. & R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1, 341. 



[Note. — From Massachusetts, Mr. Thaxter, No. 962; the species has no 

 clypeal horn, and my former reference of this species as congeneric with the 

 European Jlavago, is based on an erroneous identification of the Californian 

 species as identical with purpurifascia G. & R.] 



cenissata Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 2, 431, PI. 9, fig. 1. 

 limpida Guen., Noct. 1, p. 124. 



[Note. — I have been too hasty in considering the above two species as syn- 

 onymous. I have now a species which agrees with Guenee's description in 

 wanting the basal white marks on primaries, and is smaller and more red than 

 cerussata^ 



cerina Grote, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil., 1874, p. 200. 



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*OCimiA Z?w&«. (181G). 



Type : Noctua flavago Linn. 



sauzalitae Grote ; purpurifascia X Grote (nee G. <fc R.) Bull. Buff. Soc. N. S., 

 1, 142. California. 



[Note. — The Californian species (Mr. Edwards, No. 187, Mr. Behrens, 

 No. 161, Sept. 17) differs generically by the distinct clypeal tubercle, and is 

 the only American species known to ine that is to be referred to Gortyna of 

 Lederer (OcJiria Hiibner). The Californian species resembles purpurifascia, 

 for which I have formerly mistaken it in the " List," but differs by the t. p. 



