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NEW MOTHS FROM ARIZONA, WITH REMARKS ON 

 CATOCALA AND HELIOTHIS. 



By a. R. Grote. 



The following moths, collected at Tucson, are in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Berthold Neumoegen. We do not know enough, as 

 yet, of the lepidopterous fauna of Arizona to decide upon its 

 character. There are found within its limits Southern species 

 which we have also from Texas ; Western, from Illinois to Colo- 

 rado ; while it offers a number of strange beauties of its own. 

 It will be one of the richest fields for the collector for sometime 

 to come. 



In what I have written here as to the conduct of Mr. Hulst, 

 and Mr. Strecker, I have tried to speak for the good name of 

 our science, no less than to vindicate names proposed by myself 

 and insure a correct synonymy. 



Ameria Unicolor. Robinson. 



Also from Texas. The genus may be referred to the Litho- 

 sians, and seems to fall in between Eiiphancssa and Crocota. The 

 wing structure is like EupJianessa ; the color is that of Crocota. 

 The ocelli are wanting. I have regarded Crocota as belonging to 

 the Arctians, and, in my arrangement, inaugurating that sub- 

 family, the ocelli are present. This species of Ameria is frail, 

 unicolorously orange, the wings partially transparent, or sub- 

 diaphanous ; the antenna are blackish. 



The specimen is from Prescojt, as also CyinatopJiora Piilmo- 

 iiaria, and Grotella Sex'scriata,'^escnhed in this paper. The 

 others are generally from Tucson. 



Charadara Palata. Grote. 



? . The female of this species has the hind wings gray, not 

 white, as in the male type from Colorado. 



Apatela Edolata. n. s. 



S ? . Allied to Xyliniformis, but much larger, and darker, 

 shaded with black. Hind wings white, veins a little soiled in the 

 female. Forewings with a white, vivid, acutely dentate, t. p. 

 line, as in its ally. Below the median vein, the wing is shaded 

 from the base outward, longitudinally, diffusely with black, 

 and again from opE^^site the disc to outer margin. Expanse, 

 38 to 40 mil. '^ 



In this form the blackish thorax and primaries are very 

 different from Ferdita, Persuasa and Afflicta. The species 

 belongs to another group. 



Agrotis Texana. Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil, 2, PI. 6, 

 f^g. 2. 



A specimen from Arizona belongs evidently to this species, 

 though it is less strongly marked than my figure. The fore 

 wings are yellowish brown, the hind wings whitish. The size is 

 about that of Pastoralis. Whether this is the same as the 



