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in distribution, yet in Texas and Arizona are a number of fine 

 species. The geographical range of genera seems wider in 

 North America where we find Fidonia Finictaria in Texas, 

 whereas in Europe the genus does uot extend so far south. 

 As in the butterflies the lower grade of Noctuidae [CatocaliiKx) 

 are much more numerous in America, but there is no parallel 

 in the Noctuidoe to the preponderance in Europe of groups of 

 butterflies like the brown or meadow butterflies. In typical 

 genera or leading genera we outnumber Europe from two to 

 three times in species, /. e., Agrotis, Hadena, Catocala, etc. We 

 are weak in Cuciillia (though we seem to have most of the groups), 

 and, in the smaller geometrid-like Noctuids, such as TJialpocharcs, 

 Eustrotia. Our Plusias are more bizarre, bu: on the whole less 

 rich and fewer compared with Europe, but here the Asiatic species 

 intrude. I think we may safely assume double the number of 

 species in North America, as compared with Europe, in the 

 Noctiddce. Elsewhere I have objected to the including of the 

 Labrador fauna in European catalogues and pointed out that its 

 affinity was with the New England fauna of which it is an exten- 

 sion. The Arctic forms of Labrador are found in suitable eleva- 

 tion within the limits of the New England States. To return 

 finally to Apateke, the following names I have not identified, and 

 the discovery of the species intended will disturb our synonymy 

 somewhat. I think that Guenee has been unusually brief and un- 

 satisfactory in his descriptions in this most interesting of genera, 

 and which alTords, like Heliophila, one of the most fascinating 

 studies in the sub-order. 

 . A. Spinigera, Guen., Noct., i, 45. 

 - A. Teluin, Guen., Noct., i, 45. 

 • A, Interriipta, Guen., id., 46. 

 A. Longa, Guen, id., 54. 



A. Uhm, Harr. Ent. Cor. 312, PI. 3, fig. 10. (Larva.) 

 A. Pruni, Harr. Ent. Corn 313, PI, 4, fig. 13. {Larva.) 

 A. Salicis, Harr. Ent. Cor., 314, fig. 44. {Larva.) 

 A. Aceris, Abb. and Sm., 2, 93. {Jmago and larva.) 

 ] A. Hastidifera, Abb. and Sm., 2, 92. {Linago and larva.) 

 Mr. Walker's synonyms are noticed in my Illustrated Essay. 

 If we could only make out these nine species satisfactorily, 

 the nomenclature of our species might be considered to be well 

 ascertained. Of two or three of them I have suspicions, but no 

 sufficient certainty. 



The main part of the interest in the species of Apatela must 

 always lie in the collection of the larvae. These are gaily colored 

 and diversely ornamented, so much so that they offer generic 

 characters, while the sober gray moths they produce are, on the 

 whole, uniform and uninteresting in appearance. The characters 

 of the genus are not strong ; they have to take in so heavy a 

 moth as A. Americana, and so slight a one a.s A. Vinmila; so 



