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Oscar John (St. Petersburg)- 



A generic subdivision of the genus Pnlpmi:^ula Stgr. 

 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). 



(With 24 figures). 



Under this generic name the catalogue of Dr. O.St a u d i n g e r 

 and Dr. H. Rebel, ed. 1901, comprises a number of species doubtless be- 

 longing to several different groups, as has been recognized by the au- 

 thors of the catalogue and expressed by them in remarks placed in 

 parenthesises. 



A detailed examination of the species mentioned under the name 

 of Palpcmgula in the above catalogue, to which has been added strami- 

 nea B.-Haas, described after the publication of it, has given such 

 markedly differenciating structural characters in the different groups, 

 that I cimsider it perfectly justifiable to establish new genera 

 for them. 



As to the name of Palpaniiula itself, it is more than doubtful, 

 whether it can be maintained. In 1857 F. Walke r ^) described the 

 species atrnsig)i(ib( from North flindostan, establishing for it the genus 

 Anumeffi. 20 years later Dr. 0. Staudinger^) describes his species 

 lienkei, which he places in the genus Leiieanitis, but finding that it did 

 not entirely fit into it, proposes the generic nam(i of Falpimgida incase 

 it should have to be separated in a special genus. To this genus, 

 according to S t a u d i n g e r, should be added spilota E r s с h. and dcD- 

 tisfyignf(( Stgr. Now. in his catalogue he places spilota as a variety of 

 iitr(>signiit((, ignoring Walker's generic name Anumehi, without giving 

 any reason for this. Unfortunately 1 could not obtain a specimen of atrosig- 

 natd Wlk. and therefore 1 cannot лvith certainty tell whet lier there is 

 any generic difference between the two or not, Init in my opinion they 

 are sure to belong to one genus. If that be so, the name of Palpaiig/iln 

 has, according to the law of priority, to be replaced by Aniimefa. 



1) Walker, Frauds. List of specimens of Lepid. liis. Brit. Mus. 

 XV, p. 1770. 



-) Entora. Zeitung, Stettin, 1877, p. 196. 



Pycci;. Энтом. Обозр. 1909. № 1—2. (1юнь 1909 г.). 



