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is number 84, and has as type S. alhicoda Hiib. This species was 

 figured by Hiibner as European, and was said by Treitschke, v, 2, 

 167, to be albifrons H.-S., with an erroneous h)cality. Mr. Dyar 

 seems to think it a good species, and that it may not even be congeneric 

 with albifrons. I do not know it. Edema contains of American 

 species, besides those in our list, obliqua Wlk., and jjlagiata Wlk. 

 The former has been pkiced in tlie synonymy among the Noctuidoe ; 

 the hitter was referred to Parorgyia by Messrs. Grote and Robinson 

 from an examination of the type. Genus 41 is Stretchia Hy. Edw., 

 with plusiiformis as sole species and type. As far back as 1882, Mr. 

 Grote referred this genus to the Noctuidse and as a synonym of 

 Perigrapha. Acherdoa (not Acherdes, as Mr. Kirby writes) /errarm 

 has been referred as identical with Variria ornata Neum. (Can. Ent. 

 xxiv, 185), and is surely not a Notodontid. It is pleasant to find Mr. 

 Kirby wrong and myself right in transcribing, once in a while ; the 

 boot is too often on the other leg. I realize too well the ab.solute 

 impossibility of getting so vast a body of names rightly written, 

 to make it a subject of criticism. Certila flexuosa I do not know; 

 it is one of the undetermined Walker species. Hyparjxix, genus 

 82, contains our species only. PsaphidiaW]k., with resumens as sole 

 S|)ecies and type, is a noctuid. My catalogue of this family is in the 

 printer's hands and I cannot say from recollection what species it is 

 a synonym of In Cerura, cineroides and Candida are both given 

 specific rank, and bicuspis is not credited to America. Under Pan- 

 thea we find lencomekena Morr., which has been for many years rec- 

 ognized as a synonym of Audela acronydoides Wlk., and so appears 

 in Mr. Grote' s list of 1882. The genus is certainly noctuid, by the 

 bye, and we have a number of species fully referable to it. In Ght- 

 phisia, all our species appear as listed ; iearlii has been referred to 

 Bombycia long since and septentrionalis Wlk., here given specific 

 rank, has been referred, though with a ? to triUneata by Mr. Gi'ote. 

 Thaumetopcea Hiib. replaces Cnethocampa Steph., and here we find 

 gri.iea Neum. Ellida gelida Grt. appears under genus 117 ; as al- 

 ready stated, transversaia Walk, must replace the specific name. 

 Under Nofodonta we have stragida, basitriens, mnplaria, plagiata and 

 notaria of our species. The latter has been referred to Loplwpteryx 

 elegans Strk. Lophodonta contains only the species of our list. 

 Ochrodigina Hiib. replaces Drynobia Dup., and tortuosa Tepp. ap- 

 pears under that name. Under Lophoptenjx our two species appear, 

 and to elegant Strk., var. a, orissa Strk., is added. No change ap- 



