1895.] 41J [Grote. 



it in correcting his reference of Ceratliosia to the Arctiidae, so it need not 

 detain us liere. The hind wings of Rivula agree, according to Smith, 

 with the "Trifidoe." Mr. Tutt, in his Stray J^otes on the Noctuidm, 

 calls the reference of Herrick-Schaeffer of Rivula "inexplicable," so it 

 may be dismissed as an example of the fact that neurational characters 

 should not be too literally interpreted. But Dr. Chapman writes that 

 Rivula is not a Deltoid, and as positively not belonging to the Pseudoip- 

 sidae or Nycteolldoe, from which I may say the sliape of the wings de- 

 cidedly removes it. Since I am not willing to place it in the same tribe 

 with Cilia, from the details of neuration, it may be separately placed in 

 the new tribe, Rivulini m. The relationsliip of Oxycilla and Cilia to 

 Rivula must be left for future study. I publish the names here as they 

 have been cited in catalogues. All such unpublished names of mine are 

 now exhausted. 



In a pamphlet, kindly sent me by Mr. William Schaus, occurs the men- 

 tion of a genus "Alibama," which I do not recognize and cannot trace. 

 If it has the same derivation as Alabama Grt., 1895, and is different, then 

 the latter may be called Eualahama. The species Orthosia purpurea, No. 

 779, is wrongly written perpura. If crispa of Harvey is a variety of this, 

 then it is most certainly wortliy of the varietal name. I really do not 

 know what varietal names are for, if they are not to be employed as 

 designating forms so distinct in appearance as crupa, specialis and gularis. 

 To lump these under a common title is to ignore a category of facts which 

 our nomenclature was invented to designate. The black, suffused speci- 

 mens of my Androjiolia olorina from California in the Hy. Edwards col- 

 lection, now in charge of Mr. Beutenmiiller in the American Museum, 

 Central Park, should bear the label var. australim Grt, 



On page 69 of the Catalogue, Mr. Smith says : " In the British 

 Museum, Mr. Butler has placed a lightly marked specimen of turris Grt., 

 with typical saucia, and has published them as identical." There are 

 several other criticisms of Mr. Butler's determinations to a similar effect, 

 but I have never seen Mr. Butler's papers, and since Mr. Smith has ap- 

 parently corrected these mistakes, so far as tlie North American species 

 are concerned, they need not be entered upon here. There is only one of 

 these instances in which it is possible Mr. Butler is correct, the identity of 

 our North American Agrotis dolis with Agrotit birivia Hb., from the Alps. 

 I have not compared specimens and the figures of the latter do not recall 

 to me the former. Mr. Smith seems to regard birivia as the type of Chera, 

 and as this term may have been misapplied by Mr, Butler, I give the 

 genus from the Verzeiehniss : 



Chera. 



1818 (1816-1832). Hubner, Verzeiehniss, 211. Serratilinea (this first 

 species has hairy eyes and is an aberrant Mamestra from the Alps and 

 Siberia), fugax (Iticernea), renigera (these three names apply to distinct 

 species of Agrotis from the Alps, Austria, Russia and Hungary, all un- 



