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in DipJithcra Fallax. A highly colored Innotata does not look 

 unlike a Fallax which has lost its green color and turned yellow. 

 "Graef's Dagger." The larva is apparently not described ; it will 

 be curious to note its relation to that of D. Fallax. Canada to 

 Middle States ; rare about Brc^klyn, in the then suburbs of which 

 the type of my Graefii was taken rather more than twenty years 

 ago. I venture to keep the name in the English equivalent. We 

 used to consider this a very rare and interesting insect. 



I will now enumerate the species referable to the typical 

 group of the genus ^'Apatela " in a restricted sense, a group 

 which is represented in Europe by A. Aiiricoma, and in North 

 America by A. Briimosa more especially, as held by Speyer, 

 though Guenee disagrees. I think that the species clustering 

 about A. Scparcuis may afTord another division, and by no means 

 consider the group as homogenous. We must know the imma- 

 ture stages before deciding. In Triacna itself, which is a more 

 easily defined group, I am uncertain whether Occidentalism Lobe- 

 liit, Haita, Qnadrata, etc., should not be separated from Albarufa^ 

 Falcnla, etc.^ to say nothing of single species of difficult affinities, 

 such as Vinfiula. The species of Apatcla proper are: i. Brumosa, 

 Guen., 2 ; I5istans, Gr., 3 ; Rubricoma, Guen., 4; Luteicoma, 

 Guen., Mss. (this name was given us by Mr. Guenee with that of 

 Agrotis Rcpcjitis, names not published in the Species General, 

 but attached subsequently to types in M. Guenee's collection, 

 and under which we illustrated the species — there were three 

 such names given us by M. Guenee to my collection, but the 

 third I no longer remember); 5, SUBOCHREA, Gr. (a fine insect 

 taken about Buffalo — "Bright Dagger" — in no way related to 

 Mr. Morrison's Aspera, which is a Hadenoid form, probably be- 

 longing to Polia); 6, Connecta, Gr.; 7, Perdita, Gr.; 10, Af- 

 FLICTA, Gr.; II, Noctivaga, Gr. To these 11 may be added 12, 

 Harveyana, Gr., and 13, Clarescens, Guen., which resemble 

 Tritena in some respects and, perhaps, do not belong here, I do 

 not know what the larvae are like. 



To recapitulate this list of our Apatelae, and following in 

 the main my arrangement in the new check list, the following 

 are the approximate figures. There are about eighteen Euro- 

 pean species known ; 



Name of No of 



Sub-genus. Species. 



Tries na 16 



Acronicta 4 



Megacrofiycta 3 



Merolonchc /) 2 



yochecera I "i 



Apatela 13 



Name of No. of 



Sub-genus. Species, 



Lepitoreuma 6 



• Arctomyscts i 



Mastiphanes 5 



Eulonche 3 



Total number of species. . , 54 



As near as may be we have three times as many species of 

 Apatela in North America as in Europe. The genus is northern 



