374 (ip:()K(;K i>. iiulst. 



hind tihite soiiiewhiit swollen or .slightly so, without luiir pencil in 

 % , with all spurs; fore wings 12 veins, lU and 11 from cell ; with- 

 out fovea below in S ; hind wings o undeveloped, (> and 7 se[)ai'ate, 

 8 separate from cell ; wings even, scunewhat wavv, or somewhat 

 angled. 



Mr. ^leyrick joins CrocalUa Treit. with this. The type of Cro- 

 ealll.fi is eiuigaarla L., which is also the type of Easarca Hub. of 

 the Teatamen. Eiiiu/uarla is not congeneric with Gonodontis how- 

 ever, as the tongue is wanting. I have joined with this genus Epir- 

 miif/n's Hiib., the type of which is vbjinnaria Hub., which has 

 broad, rounded wings, but which is insensibly connected with the 

 species having waved or angiflate wings. Mr. Warren gives the 

 name Mdarrhauthla to obfirmdrla, " because pidverata has been re- 

 moved to the Orthostixinpe." Epirratdhlf was created by Hiibner 

 with two species under it, palvemtu and objinnaria. Boisduval, find- 

 ing tiiem not congeneric, created the genus Ploseria with piifvcnita 

 as type, thus leaving objinnaria as type oi'-Epirranthitt. This was 

 right, and the reference was, so far as I know, universally recognised 

 by systematists till ^Ii'. Meyrick, without explanation, \)ut pnlce rata 

 under Ejjirraidhif<. 1 do not believe Epirraid/ii-i a valid genus, but 

 if so or not, its type is objir nutria Hub. 



Hiib. Verz. 268, 1818, gave the name Gonodoida to a genus of 

 Noctuidte. Under the })resent recognised law of priority, the luime 

 Gotiodoidifi, not being a mere distinction of gender, is not a syno- 

 nym, and must not, therefore, give way to Epirraidhis. 



Species : — 

 G. hijpochraria H.-Sch. G. j'ornio.^a Hulst, n. sp. 



G. warneri Haw. G. obfirmaria, Hub. 



G. daaria Guen. G. didichata (luen. 



G. j)ilo-'«iria Pack. G. antidiscaria Walk. 



G. barne»ii Hulst, n. sp. 



G. bitriie^iii n. sp. — Exiiaiuls .'58-40 mni. Paljii siiu>ky brown, end member 

 closely scaled, middle and basal members ligliter colored and liairy; head rather 

 long haired, smoky ochreous; antennse about one-half as loiig as winj;, pectina- 

 tions stout, but rather short, smoky yellow in color; thorax long hairy, yellow, 

 with a smoky tinge, abdomen of same color: fore wings slightly falcate, angled 

 at end of vein 4 ; the wings are divided into tliroe fields the basal reaching about 

 one-fourth the wing on eosta, the same distance on inner margin, rounding out- 

 wardly, ochreous yellow in color; the middle field has a considerably darker 

 tinge, and is limited outwaidly by a line curving invviirdly near the middle and 

 subparallel with the outer margin; this field is on botli iinier and outer edge 

 witiiin lined narrowly witii smoky bmwn ; outiT field c^lay oclier ; hind wings 



