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ILLUSTRATIONS OF NOCTUID^. 

 (Plate I., Vol. 2). 



By A. R. Grote. 



On the accompanying Plate I. figures i and 2 represent Rho- 

 dodipsa Miniana, which was discovered by Prof. Snow in Northern 

 New Mexico, and described by myself in " Papilio " for October 

 of last year. This species is one of a number of pretty Helio- 

 thid forms in which our Western Noctuid fauna is so rich. Fig- 

 ures 3 and 3« represent Gortyna Rigida,"^ Grote, an Eastern species 

 collected by Mr. Thaxter in Massachusetts, who kindly sent me 

 the male here represented. I have restored to this genus the 

 term Gortyna, not using this name in the restricted sense in which 

 Lederer employs it, viz., for the European Flavago, ^hxch. has the 

 clypeus mucronate, and should be referred to Ochria. A syn- 

 onymical note upon the use of Gortyna will by found on page 37 

 of my "Check List." Figure 3 represents the side view of Gor- 

 tyna Rig zda, showing the thoracic tuftings, which are important in 

 classifying the NoctiiidcB. Figure 4 represents Schinea biixea, 

 described by myself in the " Canadian Entomologist," and received 

 from Texas by Mr. B. Neumoegen. 



♦Erroneously printed "Rifida" in the plate. 



Errata in Prof. Riley's Communication in the 

 March Number. — Page 44, line 4, omit the third comma ; same 

 page, line 7, for "Danopolis" read "DemopoHs ; " same page, lines 

 29 and 31, for "Synonym" read "Synonymy." 



