North American noctuId/^ op^ the genus ingura. 283 



respecting at least one species (in that drawer) of which we 

 possess the type, clearly prove that the genus, as arranged by 

 me, cannot have been even glanced at. 



The genus Ituiura has been arranged in the Museum collection 

 for quite a considerable time, for it is one of the groups which 

 years ago I referred to the Notodoutidse, only discovering my 

 error when engaged upon the arrangement of the Noctuidae, to 

 which group I immediately transferred it.* 



I have nothing to add to Prof. Smith's notes respecting 

 /. dcclinata, Grote, /. delineaia, Abbot, and I. ahrostuloides, 

 Guenee. If I have seen Abbot's drawing, it is evident that I 

 have failed to identify the species. 



I. fuscescens, Walk. 

 This is not a North American species ; the type was from 

 Honduras, and is a very slight variety, scarcely worth noting, of 

 /. htiiodes. It is very distinct indeed from 



I. ABROSTOLELLA, Walk. 



Incorrectly spelt /. ahrostella (sic) by Prof. Smith. It would 

 be a pity if we had to adopt the name in a genus which already 

 contains a species named /. ahrostoloides. Fortunately this will, 

 I feel certain, be unnecessary. Ilespecting I.Jiahclla, Grote, and 

 I. oculatrix, Guen., I have nothing to add to Prof. Smith's 

 remarks. 



I. PYGM^A, Ili'ihn. 



I have no doubt that this is a bad representation of I. ahro- 

 stolella, the synonymy of which therefore will be as follows : — 



Ingura pygmcea. 

 Pcectes 'piiqimea, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. Zutr. 21, tigs. 109, 



110 (1818). 

 Stdirita '.^ abrostolclla, Walker, Lep. Het. xxxv. p. 17-11: (18G(>). 

 Ingura prapilata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311 



(1875). 



I. CRISTATRIX, Gn. 



This is a truly Indian species, the type of which, from 

 Horsfield's Java collection, is in the Museum. Its range 

 extends into Southern India on the one hand, and to the 

 Friendly Islands on the other. It differs from all the American 

 species subgenerically, the basal portion of the antennas being 

 strongly and widely pectinated, the pectinations not appressed 

 to the shaft, but expanded freely. There are four examples of 

 this well-marked species in our drawer of Ingura, and it is so 

 conspicuous an insect that no man looking into the drawer could 



* I am not positive that this genus stood among the Noctuidae when 

 Prof. Smith went through them ; but it was arranged, and all the species 

 labelled. 



