18 GROTE — SEAHCH FOR THE TYPE OF XOCTUA LIXN. [Jan. 3, 



XANTHI.\. 



1806. HuEBNER, Tentamen, 1. 



Fulvago (puleacea), sole species and therefore type. 



181 6. OCHSENHEIMER, Schifi. Eur.^ iv, 82. 



Luteago and sixteen other species. Cites Hiibner, but includes 

 his type under Cosmia.. The similar endings of the names of 

 the yellow autumnal species, in ago, may have helped to 

 increase the confusion in their application which prevails in early 

 European literature. Hiibner's erroneous use of '^fulvago" may 

 have led to his generic title being misapplied. Species of Citria 

 and Orthosia are constantly referred in America to Xanthia, which 

 term should be kept in the North American Catalogue for paleacea 

 alone, specimens of which I described under the name of infumata, 

 not knowing the European species, now believed to be identical 

 with our own. Enargia Hlibn. Verz. has paleacea also for^type 

 and falls before Xanthia. 



COSMIA. 

 1806. HuEBNER, Tentamen, i. 

 Affinis, sole species and therefore type. 



18 [6. OcHSENH., Schm. Eur., iv, 84. 



Fulvago (W. V. Hiibner = paleacea), gilvago, abluta, trapezina, 

 diffinis, affinis and pyralina. Cites Hiibner's Tentamen and in- 

 cludes his type of Cosmia. The genus should be restored to Hiib- 

 ner, but has no place in our American Catalogues. Ochsenheimer 

 corrects Hiibner's erroneous application of '' fulvago." 



AMPHIPYRA. 



1 8 16. OcHSENH., Schm. Eur., 70. 



Tragopoginis, tetra, livida, cinnamomea, pyramidea, perflua, 

 spectrum. 



1829. BoiSD., Eur. Lep. Index Meth , 6Z. 



Uses it for the same species. The first six species belonged since 

 1 806 to Pyrophyla (r. Pyrophila), and the type of Amphipyra is 

 spectrum. The genus is not represented in America. Our species 

 belong to Pyrophyla Hubn., 1806, type pyramidea. 



