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XX. Further notes on the synonymy of the genera of 

 Noctuites. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 



&c. 



[Eead September ovd, 1890. 



To some of the groups already treated of, I have a few 

 additional notes to record ; I shall therefore take them 

 in the order in which they now stand in the Museum 

 cabinets. 



C YMATOPHOEID.E . 

 Prometopus, Guen. 

 1. Prometopus inassueta. 

 Prometopus inassueta, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 38, n. 42 



(1852). 

 BryophUa dorsivaria, Walk., Lep. Het., 15, p. 1648 



(1858). 

 Australia and Tasmania. 



M. Guenee placed this genus in his heterogeneous 

 famil}^ Bomhycoidce ; it is, however, allied to Cymato- 

 phora. 



NOCTUID^. 



OCHROPLEURA, Hilhl. 



In the Grote collection I found an example of 0. plecta, 

 which is labelled, probably in error, " Valeria grotei, 

 Morr.' 



It is a very remarkable thing that Ochropleura, a genus 

 founded by one of Mr. Scudder's favourite authors, is 

 amongst the many lepidopterous genera omitted from 

 the ' Nomenclator Zoologicus.' 



Mentaxya, Hilbn.* 

 Eugrapha, Hiibner = Ariathisa, Walk. 

 1. Mentaxya amatura. 

 Agrotis amatura, Walker, Lep. Het., 15, p. 1700 

 (1858). 



■'- This genus is extremely close to Anida, Grote, which may 

 liave to be amalgamated with it. 



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