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Hydroecia marginidens. 

Gortyna marginidens, Guenée. 
Habitat, Iinois (Guenee). 
Hydroecia rutila. 
Gortyna rutila, Guenée. 
Habitat, New York State. 
Hydroecia speciosissima. 
Gortyna speciosissima, G. & R. 
Habitat, Rhode Island. 
Hydroecia nitela. 
Gortyna nitela, Guenée. 
Habitat, Atlantic District. 
Hydroecia nebris. 
Gortyna nebris, Guenée. 
Habitat, Atlantic District. 
Hydroecia nictitans, lorea, sera, immanis, stramentosa, have been 
already correctly described from our Territory under this genus. 
Gortyna cataphracta, Grote. 
Habitat, Atlantic District. 
Represents in our fauna the European Gortyna flayago. Harris 
Gortyna leucostigma is probably the same as Guenée’s rutila ; the 
name proposed by Harris is preoccupied and cannot be retained in 
any event. The Gortyna zeae of Harris, I have already referred to 
Achatodes. Guenée re-describes this species under the specific 
name of sandiz. 
Ablepharon,* n. g. 
Ocelli. Eyes naked. Antennae in both sexes without pectinations, simple, 
not brush-like, under a higher power with very short pubescence. Tongue 

4Gr.: a et BAépapor. 
