CATALOGUE OF NOCTriD.T: SMITH. 329 



The species was described from a design by Abbot and has no type. 

 So far as I am aware it has not been identilicd. Its recognition will be 

 l)ossible from the life history. 



Genus MAGUSA Wlk. 

 1857. Wlk., C. J5. Mils., Hot., xi, 7G2. 



M. divaricata Grt.* 



1874. Grt., Sixth Kept. Peab. Ac. Sci., 37, Stictopiera. 



1875. Harv., Bull. Jinrt". Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 281, Silcioptera. 



Habitat. — Wisconsin; New York; Florida; Texas in December. 



The type is in the British Museum. The species belongs to Mmjnm 

 rather than Stictoptera, and is very close to the Magusa dissidcns Feld. 

 and Kog,, if not indeed the same. The latter species is in the IJerliner 

 JVlusi'um, in which I had a chance to compare typical Stictopiera. 

 Moeschler has described a very closely allied species from the West 

 Indies as a Laphyyma. 



Geuus CATOCALA Schrank. 

 1802. Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2, 158. 



In this genus I have made no original studies and no comparisons. 

 The species have been great favorites with collectors, and much has 

 been written concerning their habits and variations. Mr. (Irote and Mr. 

 Hy. Edwards have devoted si)ecial attention to the genus; and, lastly, 

 Dr. Hulst has given a monographic revision in the Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society, vii, pp. 15-56, 1884, in which the 

 species are se])arate(l on structui-al peculiarities. This revision is fol- 

 lowed here in essentials, and must be consulted in any study of the 

 genus. The departures from the order given in the publication cited 

 are all such as Dr. Ilulst has himself suggested in the check list of 

 Lepidoptera edited by me. I have not kept up my references as care- 

 fully in this genus as in some others, but I do not think 1 have omitted 

 anything really important. A great many mere notes of captures and 

 of habits are not referred to, though interesting in themselves and \al- 

 uable to the student of geographical distribution. I did not examine 

 the British Museum series, and therefore am not to be considered as 

 indorsing the correctness of any synonymy given. My notes concern- 

 ing the location of type specimens are meager, but there are few genera 

 in which the literature is so good and the reference to actual tyi)es so 

 seldom necessary. Most of the Hulst types are iu the Rutgers College 

 colle(;tiou. jNIr. Grote and Mr. Edwards have both examined the 

 British Museum collection, and theii- references are probably accuiate. 



