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lection, and Mr. Grote gave nie types of each, wliicli are now in tLe 

 National Mutseuin. The genus lias little in common Avitli those with 

 which it is associated; but I leave it where Mr. Grote put it until 

 critical study develojis a better place for it. 



Geuus PLATYSENTA Gi t. 

 1874. Grt., 6th Kept. IVab. Ac Sci., 28. 



P. videns (in." 



1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., i, 78, Leiicanid. 

 1882. Grt., III. Essay, 42, = atrkUiatu. 



iiidhjeiis Wlk. 

 1857. Wlk., C. li. Mas., Het., Xi, 712, 1 Nouar/ria. 

 1882. (Jrt., 111. Essay, 42, i)r. syii. 



mcskei Speyei\ 

 1875. Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxvi, IK!, Curadrina. 

 1882. Grt., New List, 30,? pr. syn. 



atriciUata Grt. 

 1874. Grt., Gth Eept. Peab. Ac. Sci., 28, Flatysetita. 

 1874. Grt., Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, pi. i, f. 2, I'lah/snila. 



Habitat. — Massachusetts in June and July, to Fhnida, west to the 

 Mississii)pi Valley; Colorado; Illinois in August; District of Columbia 

 in .luly, August, and September. 



Giienee's type is in the British Museum, and is uii(|uestionably the 

 same as Mr. Grote's si)ecies. Walker's type I did not see, but Mr. 

 Grote did, and is ])ositive in referring it to atricili((ta. T made a re- 

 grettable crroi- in identifying Monodcs niicicolora Gn., with this species. 



P. angustiorata (irt.* 

 1882. Grt., Bull. Geol. Siirv., vi, 584, J'l,iti/s,uta. 



Habitat. — ('olorado. 



Mr. Grote gave me a si»ecimttn niark«Ml type, whicli is now in the 

 National jMuseum. 



Genus TAPINOSTOLA Led. 



18.57. L<-<lerer, Noct. Eur., 123. 



T. variaiia Morr. 

 Is75. Morr., Proc. Ac Nat. Sci. Pliil., I.s7r), 132, 'riijtiniisloUi. 

 Habitat. — Detroit, Michigan. 



The ty}»e should l>e, and probably is, in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoiilogy at Candnidge; but 1 did not see it there. 



T. orientalis Grt. 

 1882. Grt., Bull. Cieol. Surv., vi. 583, y'tipiitostola. 



Habitat. — Kittery Point, Maine; lUiftalo, New York. 



1 have seen the tyxx^ specimens in Dr. Thaxter's collection, and have 

 identified the s])ecies from lUiffalo, New York. Dr. Thaxter thought it 

 probably a variety of rariaiKt. Mr. NeuiiHcgen also has a "type." 



