32 Journal New York Entomological Society. [^'°'- xxii. 



Postscript. The thirteenth volume of Hampson's Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera Phalxn.-e has just appeared. Enclidia is divided, our 

 species going into Gonospeleia Hiibn., if the Tentamen be ignored. 

 Drasteria, as a result of the first species rule disappears, to be replaced 

 by Cccnurgia Grote, Mods is used in place of Kcmigia. For another 

 reason Argyrostrotis Hiibn. is used in place of Agnomonia Hiibn., and 

 is made to include Poaphila (excepting a few transferred to PJirurys). 

 Zaie replaces Phccocynia, following the law of priority. In the Pan- 

 theids Diphthera is used in place of Panthea and Colocasia in place of 

 Demas. Plusia is quite differently divided, and the names differently 

 applied. A few species of Plusia have spined tibiae, and will run out 

 in the table to alternative 25, where they may be separated by their 

 strongly lashed eyes. Quite a good many have a few spines on the 

 hind tibia, and Autographa and Syngrapha (interchanged in sig- 

 nificance), are used for them, reviving Phytometra (a name formerly 

 used for a variety of Noctuids and Geometers) for the more normal 

 Plusia group, including Plusia, Euchalcia, Panclwysia and part of 

 Autographa of Dyar's list. 



E.XPLANATION OF PlATE I. 



Fig. I. Venation of Noctua c-nigrum, typical of the Trifidcc, the veins 

 numbered according to the Comstock-Needham and German systems. 

 F.li. Frenulum-hook. 

 acc.c. Accessory cell (cell ist R3). 

 udcv. Upper discocellular vein. 

 nidcv. Middle discocellular vein. 

 Idcv. Lower discocellular vein. 

 Subm. sp. Submedian space (coll Cu + ist A). 

 cell. Discal cell (cell R + ist M^ + M). 

 C. Costal vein. 

 Sc. Subcostal vein. 



R. Radial vein, with its branches Rj, etc. 



A/,, M;, Mg. The branches of the median vein, whose base is lost. 

 Cu. Cubital vein ; Cuj, Cvu its branches. 

 2d A, 3d A. The anal veins. 1st A lost in both wings. 

 fren. Frenulum. 

 hum. Humeral angle. 



Fig. 2. Venation of Panthea, a fairly normal quadrifid. 

 Fig. 3. Characteristic intermediid venation, — costa and cell of hind wing. 

 Fig. 4. Typical quadrifid venation, — costa and cell of hind wing. 

 Fig. 5. A heavily spinulated tarsus, — Epia capsularis. 



