1902.] GROTE— SEARCH FOR THE TYPE OF NOCCUA LINN. 13 



i8i6j hence this part of the Verzeichniss must be of later issue, 

 probably 1822, but at any rate earlier than Duponchel. 



1874. Grote, Bull. Buff. S. N. Sci., 12. 



Lists the N. Am. species and takes //>/ as type. This accords in 

 a general way with the modern definition of Mamestra: Hadenoid 

 forms with hairy eyes, the non-extruded ovipositor and different 

 larval habit separating them from Hadena (type cucubali) Schrank 

 non Lederer (= Dianthoecia Boisd.). I list the North American 

 species of Dianthoecia, for which name Hadena Schrank must now 

 be substituted, and give the characters in Rev. Check List, N. Am. 

 Noct., 1890, 13 (Bremen, Homeyer & Meyer). 



HADENA. 



1802. Schrank, Fauna Boica, II, 2, 158. 



Refers to this genus the species of his families M. and N. These 

 species are: typica, atriplicis, pisi, oleracea, chenopodii, praecox, 

 xanthographa, piniperda, deaurata, referred to family M, and meti- 

 culosa, lucipara, cucubali, referred to family N. One of these 

 twelve Noctuids must then be the type of the name of Hadena. 

 According to modern views species i, 2, 8, to and ii are mono- 

 typic, 3-5 are Mamestrians, 6-7 Agrotids. The contents are much 

 mixed, referable to nine genera. 



to' 



1816. OcHSENH,, Schm. Eur., iv, 70. 



Excludes all the species of Schrank's family M, but includes all 

 of N, among his 29 species of Hadena. The mixture is now more 

 frightful than it was at first. The three original species of Hadena — 

 meticulosa, lucipara and cucubuli — are, however, included, and one 

 of these three must now be the type. It is noticeable, however, 

 although species with hairy and naked eyes are indifferently cited, 

 that all the species of Dianthoecia are included by Ochsenheimer. 



1816. HuEBNER, Verzeichniss, 216. 



This part of the Verzeichniss is of later date than Ochsenheimer's 

 volume. Hiibner includes under his genus Hadena only two of 

 Schrank's original species, typica and cucubali. The first is ex- 

 cluded by Ochsenheimer's first restriction in 1816, and moreover 

 became the type of Naenia Stephens in 1829. Cucubali becomes, 

 therefore, the type of the genus Hadena, and is to be looked upon 



