682 Mr, A. G. Butler's, /kr^/ier notes on the 



Mesogona, Boisd. 

 1. Meaogona tcedata. 

 $ , Pseudoglcea twdata, Grote (see Check List, p. 31, 



n. 709). 

 ^ ^ , P. blanda and P. decepta, Grote (/, c, nn. 710, 11). 

 United States. Coll. B. M. 



There are only three examples — none of them perfect, 

 and two a good deal worn — to represent the three 

 species upon which Pseudoglcea is based : as these three 

 specimens vary less one from the other than our eight 

 specimens of the nearly-allied M. acetosella, I have been 

 reluctantly obliged to regard them as synonymous. 



2. Mesogona oxalina. 

 Noctua oxalina, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. Noct., pi. 45, 



fig. 219. 

 Ipimorplia intexta, Harvey (see Grote's Check List, 



p. 32, note). 

 Europe and N. America. Coll. B. M. 



Orthosia, Ochs. 

 Tceniocampa (part), Guen. 

 1. Orthosia incerta. 

 Noctua incerta, Hufnagel, Berl. Monats., iii., p. 298, 



n. 424 (1767). 

 Tceniocampa alia, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 352, n. 587 



(1852). 

 Europe and United States. Coll. B, M. 

 This is the type of Orthosia, as restricted by Curtis. 



Gl^a, Hiihn. 

 1. Glaa vaccina. 

 Phalcena- Noctua vaccinii, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec, p. 320. 

 Noctua spadicea (Schiff.), Hiibn., fig, 179. 

 Var. A^. ligula, Esper, Eur. Schmett., pi. 166, fig, 3. 

 Europe. Coll. B. M. 



The de.scribers of Exotic Lepidoptera frequently have 

 to suffer from the bitter onslaught of men whose expe- 

 rience is limited to a study of the European and some- 



