Catalogue of noctuid.t: — smith. 327 



1«78. Gr.u'i; I?ii]l. likln. Knt. Soc, i, 4, pr. var. 

 1S78. (Jrt., liull. iU'o]. Surv., iv, 184,= c? picc. 

 1SH8. Grt., Cau. Knt., xx, 13J),= ,?inoc. 

 1888. Moeschl., Eat. Amer., iii, 197, Bolina. 



fancicidaris Gn. — partiiu. 

 1852. Gu., Spec. Gen., Noct., iii, 63, Bolina. 

 1888. Moesclil., Eut. Amer., iii, 197, pr. syn. 



IlABiTAT. — Texas ill April, May, and Kovciiibcr; Colorado: Dela- 

 ware ill June. 



The Grote and Robinson type I have not seen; bat have seen speci- 

 mens named by Mr. Grote. Dr. Harvey's type is in tlie l>ritisli Miiscnm 

 Irom tlie Grote collection. There is no reasonable doubt that Dr. 

 Harvey described only the noiinal male form. 



M. hadeniformis IJehr. 



1870. Belir, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc, in, 25, Syneda. 



1875. Grt., Clieck List, Noct., 10, MeUpotis. 



1878. Graef, Bull. Bklu. Eut. Soc, i, 54, Leucanitit. 



Habitat. — California. 



The type is probably with Dr. Behr. 



M. pallescens G. & R.* 



1866. G. & R., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vi, 21, pi. 3, f. 5, Aedia. 



1875. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., iii, 13, Bolina. 



1876. Grote, List Noctuidaj, 40, Melipolis. 



1878. Graef, Bull. Bklu. Eut. Soc, i, 54, Lencanitis. 



Habitat. — Texas in April and June; Colorado in August. 

 I have not seen the type; but there are specimens labeled by Mr. 

 Grote in the British Museum. 



M. perlaeta Hy. Edw. 

 1882. Hy. Edw., Papilio, ii, 14, Melipotis. 



Habitat. — Arizona. 



The type is in the Neumoegen collection. See Synedoida (cgrotata for 

 a note on this species. 



M. limbolaris Geyer.* 



1825. Geyer, Zutrajge, iv, ff. 689, 690, Aedia. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Geu., Noct., in, 71, Syneda. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xiii, 1168, Syneda. 

 1864. G. &. R., Proc. Eut. Soc Pliil., iv, 494, Syneda. 

 1878. Graef, Bull. Bklu. Ent. Soc, i, 54, Leueuniiis. 

 1881. Grt., Can. Eut., xiii, 91, Melipulia. 



yrandirena Haw. 

 1810. Haw., Lcp. Britt., 264, Phyiometra. 

 1829. Stcpb., 111. Brit. Eut., Haust., in, 126, Note, ? OpMusa. 



1858. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xiv, 1442, Grammodes. 

 1878. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1878, 487, pr. syn. 



Habitat. — Isfew Hampshire; Massachusetts; New York in July, to 

 Florida J Wisconsin. 



