Sept., 1907.] Smith: Notes on Some American Noctuids. 161 



Leticania. Boi'olia linita Gn., with scirpicola and aiuydaliua as syn- 

 onyms, is separated from extincta Gn., which latter is made to equal 

 ligata Grt., and this is correct. My original reference oi linita to ex- 

 tincta was based on an insufficient knowledge of our species. Leu- 

 cania texana Morr. , is referred as a synonym, or rather a white aberra- 

 tion to extincta, and I am willing to accept this as correct. Z. rimosa 

 Grt., is cited to B. flabilis Grt., and looks correct. The material in 

 this series is decidedly scanty and the relation of the forms to each 

 other is uncertain. The B. M. flabilis is rubbed and not so good as 

 the Tepper example. The species is taken at Anglesea, N. J., and I 

 fully expect rimosa, flabilis diwd ligata to prove the same, 



Meliana Curt., is used to apply to yet another series oi Leucania 

 and to include my species of Neleucania ; but here again I do not 

 agree with Hampson's association. I know the type oi Meliana, i. e., 

 flanwiea, and consider it generically distinct from the species of Leii- 

 cania here referred to it, and even more obviously different from the 

 species that I call Neleucania. 



M. albilinea Hbn., receives a long series of synonyms including 

 species with white and with black secondaries. It is sufficient to say 

 on that point that all the separations made by me in 1902 have been 

 abundantly confirmed by additional material and that new points of 

 difference have developed. The British Museum collection contains 

 what would ordinarily be considered a good series, ranging in locality 

 from Nova. Scotia to Argentina; but there are only a few, sometimes 

 one or two examples from each locality, and that is not enough to de- 

 termine the validity of species in this series. 



Leucania Ochs., is restricted to forms allied to pallens, which is 

 made the type of the genus. 



Under Leucania pallens we find hiteopallens Sm., and pertracta 

 Morr. The latter may be correct, if Mr. Morrison's species is, as I 

 suspect, based on a European specimen. As to the distinctness of the 

 American form I have already written at sufficient length, and need 

 only repeat that an abundance of additional material has not suggested 

 the necessity for any change of opinion on my part. 



Here ends Volume V of the Catalogue which is the second relating 

 to Noctuidse. It is an enormous piece of work as a whole. I have 

 recorded a good many disagreements ; but these are based largely upon 

 a different conception of the value of characters for generic divisions. 

 Sir George Hampson has placed lepidopterists under an obligation 



