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probable we have N. Am. species congeneric with didyma (secalis 

 L.), but at this writing I cannot indicate them. Lederer's restric- 

 tion of Apamea to testacea, which I followed in 1895, should not 

 be accepted ; this is the true type of Luperina Boisd. (see Grote, 

 Ca7i. Ent., 1900, 211). Boisduval, in 1829, refers both nictitans 

 (chrysographa) and nictitans (didyma) to Apamea. 



PSEUDANARTA. 

 187S. Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv,, 178. 

 Crocea (flava), sole species given and therefore type. 



1882. Grote, New Check List, New York, 27. 



Flava, var. crocea, singula, flavidens, aurea. The name, without 

 citation, is credited to Hy. Edwards, under the mistaken idea, 

 derived from correspondence, this author had used it. Pseudanarta 

 was originally proposed by Grote in letters to Hy. Edwards for this 

 author's Anarta crocea. 



1889. J. B. Smith, Ent. Afn., v, 175. 



Falcata, aurea, flava (crocea), singula, flavidens. The genus is 

 credited to Hy. Edwards and the citation: ^' Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 

 Vol. 6, p. 133, 1875," is supplied. But this page contains the 

 original description of ^;zd!r/^ crocea, and the name Pseudanarta 

 does not occur in any of the communications of Hy. Edwards to 

 the California Academy : "Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, Nos. i to 

 22," all published. This erroneous citation is twice repeated in 

 the Washington Catalogue, 148, 1893, 



1895. Grote, Abh. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, xiv, 37. 



Flava, var. crocea, singula, flavidens. The genus is limited to 

 these three species ; falcata and aurea are excluded, owing to Prof. 

 J. B. Smith's remark on their tibial structure in 1893. 



COPANARTA. 



1895. Grote, Abh. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, xiv, 70. 



Aurea, falcata, aterrima ; aurea specified as type. 



PLUSIA. 

 1806. HUEBNER, Te?it., 2. 



Chrysitis, sole species and therefore type. This name is errone- 

 ously given to Ochsenheimer, who however cites Hiibner's Tenta- 



