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NOTES ON MR. WALKER'S TYPES OF 

 NORTH -AMERICAN NOCTUID.E IN 

 THE I3RITISH MUSEUM. 



By the favour of Dr. Albert Gihitlier I have been 

 permitted to view, for the second time, Mr. "Walker's 

 types of North-American Noctuidcfi in the British- 

 Museum Collection. I have not been able to ex- 

 amine the species here mentioned with the micro- 

 scope, but I have given my opinion on what was 

 clearly to be ascertained from a mere viewing of 

 the specimens, which, incomplete as it is, cannot 

 fail to be of interest to the student in America, from 

 the vague and unsatisfactory character of Mr. 

 Walker's descriptions. 



Acronycta Cristifera, Wall-. 



The type, from Hudson's Bay, is not an Acro^njcta. 

 The abdomen is tufted ; the species is dark stone- 

 grey, with kidney-shaped reniform, and seems a 

 Hadenoid form unknown to me. 



Acronycta Fasciata, Wall: 



Eour specimens under this name are^. Brumosa 

 of Guenee ( Verrillii m.). 



