31G BULLETIN 11, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Genus MBTOPONIA Dup, 

 1844. Dnp., Cat. Li-p. M.'tli. Eur. 



M. obtusa H. Scli.* 



1853. H. Sch., Ex. Schmt'tt., 68, f. 210, Metoponia. 

 1875. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., iii, 11, Metoponla. 

 obtusnJa Zell. 



1873. Zell., Verb, k.-lc. zool.-bot. Ges., xxiii, 204, pi. iii, f. 2, Metoponla. 



1874. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 199, pr. syu. 



Habitat. — Middle and Central States; Texas in April. 



Zeller's type is in the Musenin of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. 



M. perflava Haw.* 



1875. Harv., Bull. Buff". Soc. Nat. Sci., iii, 11, Metoponla. 



Habitat. — Texas in April. 



The type is in the British Museum. 



M. macula Smith. 



1891. Smith. Trans. Am. Eut. Soc, xviii, 1,32, Metoponla. 



Habitat. — Las Vegas, Xew Mexico. 



Types are in the Neumcegen andHulst Collections. 



Genus HYBLiEA Fahv. 

 1793. Fabr., Ent. Syst., in, 2, 127. 



H. puera C'vam.* 



1779. Cram., Pap. Ex., ii, 10, pi. 103, f. D. E., I'halwna. 



1811. Oliv., Euc. M6th., viii, 282, Xoetna. 



1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., ii, 390, Hijl>li>-(i. 



1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xil, 979, Uijl)ln'n. 



1868. H. Sch., Corr.-Blatt, 1868, Cuba, p. 23, fliiliUva. 



1885. Gundlach, Cout. Eut. Cub., 339, Hulilaa. 



saf/a Fabr. 

 1787. Fabr., Mant. Insect., ii, 137, J\\}cliia. 

 1793. Fabr., Ent. Syst., iii, 2, 128, Hyhlaa. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., ii, 390, pr. syn. 



mlrlficum Strk. 

 1876. Strk., Lep. Rhop. et Het., 122, J:ni(/ma. 

 1881. Grt., Can. Eut., xiii, 16, pr. syn. 

 1883. Grt., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, xxi, 169, \n: syn. 



HABITAT. — Texas; Florida; West Indies. 



Guenee also cites N'octua unxia Hbn., and H. rtj>r/m7?.9Bdv., as synon- 

 ymous with the above species. It seems to be a common form in more 

 tropical regions and only occasional in our o^yn fauna. 



Genus DRASTERIA Hbn. 

 1816. Hiibner, Verzeichniss, 280. 



D. erechtea Cram.* 



1782. Cram., Pap. Ex. iii, 149, pi. 275, f. E., Vhalana. 

 1816. Hbn., Verzeichniss, 281, DraHteria. 

 1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., in, 289, Drastcria. 



