354 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Habitat. — Canada to Middle and Central States in Angust; Col- 

 orado. 



The type of residua is in the American Museum of JSTatural History 

 from the Angus Collection. 



Catocala adultera Hinze, recorded by Motschulsky in his Etudes, 

 1857, p. 47, as from California, has been omitted for want of proper 

 authentication. It is likely that one of the common Pacific slope 

 species resembling adultera somewhat, was mistaken for it. 



Genus OPHIDERES Bdv. 

 1834. Bdv., Fn. Ent. Madag., Lep., 99. 



O. materna Linn.* 



1767. Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 2, p. 840, Noctna. 



1773. Drury, Ulustr., ii, 24, pi. 13, f. 4, Noctua. 



1779. Cram., Pap. Exot., ir, 118, pL 174, f. B, Phalama. 



1781. Fabr.; Spec. Ins., ii, 212, Noctua. 



1782. Cram., Pap. Exot., in, 137, pi. 267, f. E, Phahvna. 



1787. Fabr., Mant. Ins., ii, 137, Noctua. 



1788. Gmel., ed. Linn., Syst. Nat., v, p. 2.533, Noctua. 

 1793. Fabr., Ent. Syst., iii, 2, 16, Noctua. 



1811. Oliv., Enc. Meth., viii, 259, Noctua. 



1816. Hbn., Verzeichniss, 264, Ehytia. 



1834. Bdv., Fn. Ent. Madag., 100, OpUderes. 



1841. Duncan, in Jardine, Nat. Libr., xxxir, 201, pi. 35, f. 2, Tripluvna. 



1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., Iii, 113, Ophidoxs, 



1856. Lucas, in Sagra's Cuba, 307, Ophidcres, 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xiii, 1222, Ophideres. 

 1868. H. Scb., Corr. Blatt, 1868, Cuba, 23, Ophideres. 

 J875, Grt., Proc. Bost. Soo. N. H., xviii, 416, Ophideres. 

 1885, Giindlacb, Cont. Ent. Cub., 340, Ophideres, 



hyhrida Fabr, 

 1775. Fabr,, Syst, Ent., 593, Noctua. 

 1181. Fabr., Spec, Ins., ij, 212, pr. syn. 



calamiriea Cram. 

 ;779. Cram., Pap. Exot., ii, 95, pi. 74, f. A, Phahvna. 

 1781. Fabr., Spec. Ins., Ii, 212, pr. syn, 



JiABiTAT. — Florida, southward. 



A tropical insect in habitus and form. The literature a§ a South 

 ^nd Central Americaij insect is not given. 



Genus STRENOLOMA Grt. 

 1880. Grf., No. Amer. Eut., i, 9/. 



S. lunilinea Grt.* 



1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 127, SpiloJovia. 

 ^880. Grt., No. Amer. Ent., i, 97, Strcnoloma. 

 1882. Grt., 111. Essay, 71, pi. iv, f. 45, Strenoloma. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania; Virginia; Kansas; Illinois; Mississippi; 

 District of Columbia in August. 

 The type is in the British Museum. 



