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1876. Grote, Buff. Check List Noct., 37. 



Restores Hiibner's type and spelling, and gives Hadena (Lederer 

 nee Schrank) as identical. The type of Schrank's genus was not 

 then ascertained. 



I show, in 1874, that the modern genus ''Xylina" must be called 

 Lithophane Hiibn., 1816, with the type socia (petrificata) — a far 

 more appropriate name. 



The American species referred to Hadena, Lederer nee Schrank, 

 should be catalogued under the following genera : Xylena Hiibn. 

 (=Xylophasia Steph.), type lithoxylea; Helioscota Grote, type 

 miselioides; Oligia Hiibn. (nee Grote, Smith), type strigilis; 

 Pseudanarta Grote, type flava (crocea) ; Monodes Guen. (rzz Oli- 

 gia Auct. nee Hiibn.), type nucicolor (paginata). A very good 

 notice of the species of Monodes will be found in E?itom. Am., 

 Vol. V, p. 145, under the name Oligia. It may be said of all 

 these genera, what is there said of Monodes, that they are not 

 "strongly characterized." They have in common naked eyes, un- 

 armed tibiae, smooth clypeus and hadeniform cut of wing. Xylena 

 may have a strong character in the thoracic shield of the larva. 

 The species belonging to these genera vary from being robust, hairy 

 and tufted down to slighter, scaly and smoother forms. To Xylena 

 belong species like lignicolor, auranticolor, genialis, cristata, vul- 

 garis, verbascoides, cuculliiformis, hulsti, vultuosa, sputatrix (I do 

 not acknowledge this to be Walker's dubitans),- devastatrix, 

 occidens, arctica, violacea, Bridghami, apamiformis, lateritia, suf- 

 fusea, remissa ; to Helioscota : miselioides, marina, chlorostigma, 

 mactata, modica, diversicolor. From want of space and material 

 I do not carry these references further here. 



APAMEA. 



I proposed at one time to take Ochsenheimer's nictitans as 

 type of Apamea, it is his first species ; this nictitans is not the Gor- 

 tyna nictitans L. of Lederer, but is nictitans Esp., a variety of 

 secalis L.= didyma Esp.== oculea Guen. {Cat. Stand. a?td Rebel, p. 

 175). My reference was correct, for this species had become type 

 of Apamea through Duponchel in 1829. The similarity of the 

 name led me, however, to mistake Ochsenheimer's species for nicti- 

 tans Bkh. (given by Lederer as of Linne) = chrysographa Hiibn. 

 {Cat. Stand, and Rebel, p. 186), which latter is the type of Hydrce- 

 cia Guen., as shown by me in these pages and elsewhere. It is 



