CATALOGUE OF NOCTUID.E SMITH. 247 



D. palligeia Grt. 



1851. (Ut., riipilio, I, 35, Dvvu. 



Haiu'J'AT, — Sierra Nevada, California; Western Colorado. 

 Types are in the Kdwards Collection and in the British Mnsenm. 



D. morigera Hy. Va\\v. 



1887. Hy. Edw., Euto. Aiiicr., ii, 169, Dcva. 



nABiTAT. — South Park, Colorado. 

 The type is in the Edwards Collection. 



Gcuiis PLUSIA Oclis. 

 1816. Oclis., Sclimett. Eur., iv, 89. 



^Iv. Grote in his lists writes Plmia Fabricius, and in 1874 quoted 

 Lederer as authority for this use. Lederer, however, says Flusia 

 Treitschke; but says also Plusia Fabricius, for a section of the genus in- 

 cluding those not referable to Abrostola-, Staudinger writes Plusia Och- 

 senheimer, and this accords with what I have found in my searches 

 among the ancients. In none of the Fabrician works is Noctiia subdi- 

 vided, though probably in the Systema Glossatoruni this was done. It 

 may be that Lederer derives his authority from this unpublished work; 

 but as the matter stands Ochsenheimer must be credited with the 



genus. 



P. aerea Hbu.* 



1810. Hbn., Scbniett. Eur., iv, pi. 56, f. 27, Noctua. 



1811. Oliv., Eiic. Meth., viii, 318, Noctua. 

 1816. Hbu., VerZeichuiss, 250, Agrapha. 



1827. Dup., Hist. Nat. Lcp. Fr., vii, 17, pi. 133, f. 4, Nochia. 



1829. Bdv., Index Metb., 159, Plusia. 



1832. Meigeu, Syst.Beschr. Scbmett. Yaw., hi, 250, pi. 121, 1". 5, Plusia. 



1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., ii, 333, Plusia. 

 1857. AVlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xii, 890, Plusia. 



Habitat. — Nova Scotia, south to Florida and Texas; United States 

 eastof the Rocky mountains; New Mexico; Colorado; Canada in June 

 and August; New York in June, August, and September; Massachu- 

 setts in July; District of Columbia in August. 



This species was described as European, which accounts for the char- 

 acter of the bibliography. Guenee first i^ointed out that it was an 

 American. Curiously enough there has been no reference retjuiriiig 

 citation in American works. 



P. aeroides Grt.* 



1864. Grt., Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbil., in, 83, et 541, pl. 2, f. 5, Plusia. 

 1874. Lintuer, Ent. Cont., in, 164, larva. 

 1876. Tbaxter, Psycbe, i, 188, larva. 



Habitat. — Canada to Texas, to Colorado. Dates as in (oxa. 

 The type is in the British Museum. 



