June. 1904.] Smith: Catalogue of the Noctuid.e. 97 



Sni., gets Schiuia ligecp. Sm., as an added species though I a m not 

 quite ready to subscribe to the correctness of this reference. Rhodo- 

 dipsa Grt., remains unchanged. Schinia and Lygrantha'cia are about 

 as in my recent list ; but the addition of Pippoiia is a surprise. The 

 type is in the British Museum and the reference should be correct ; 

 but the peculiarities of venation, wing-form and clypeal characters 

 pointed out by me should hold the genus unless, indeed, my specimen 

 was an abnormal one. To Schinia comes Bessula Iiixa which I sus- 

 pected before I saw the type ; but have regarded as a good generic 

 form ever since. Ei/panychis Grt., is recognized {ox spimsce Grt., and 

 crcniljjiea'^vcs.., is added to it. Alclicleptria Hbn., contains only one 

 American species, M. sciiposa, and that is American only because Mr. 

 Grote redescribed it as nuchalis. Timora Wlk., contains forty species 

 with Rhodosea Julia as the only American member and as it also forms 

 a section by itself, it will not be doing serious violence to classification 

 if it be given generic recognition as separate from its African and 

 Asiatic allies. G^/'^^/Viy^//;?/'^// Harv., contains only our own species 

 and the specific names in this genus, only one of which is written as 

 originally described, attract attention to the fact that terminations 

 have been ruthlessly altered in all cases where necessary to a gram- 

 matical agreement with the generic name. The tendency with us has 

 been rather in the direction of letting the name stand as originally 

 written whether the ending was right or wrong. Actinotia Hbn., 

 contains no American species and our A. ramositla and A. stewarti are 

 temporarily without a home — the specific names occurring nowhere 

 in the index — or elsewhere so far as I have been able to find. With 

 this genus the real Noctuid series begins, the Heliothid type being 

 fairly ended by Copablepharon. Agrotiphila Grt., is distinctively 

 Agrotid in type but we get, in addition to the species so placed by me, 

 Anarta quieta Hbn., with synonyms A. scluviiherri Zett., cousjricta 

 Wlk., and rigida Wlk. If this is correct it means that some of the 

 identifications current in our collections are erroneous. Orosagroiis'is 

 a new genus based on Agrotiphila rigida Sm., with incognita and two 

 species from Kashmir to keep it in countenance ; but 1 must confess 

 to a distinct doubt as to the validity of this genus. My great com- 

 fort after reading and comparing the descriptions and specimens was 

 that if I went to extremes in some directions, I was no worse than my 

 neighbors who walked in other paths. Forosagrofis Sm., is recog- 

 nized on a basis somewhat different from that originally suggested by 



