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Morrison's description, except that the whitish orbicular is 

 open superiorly, somewhat triangulate, and that the discal 

 marks beneath and on the hind wings above are illegible. 

 The ornamentation is like Anarta, with coarse lines above 

 on the primaries, while beneath, both wings are pale, and 

 here the coucolorousness of both wings as to their ground 

 color is characteristic of the group to which I conceive the 

 insect belongs. 



Adita Grote (1874). 



I founded this genus upon the Phalcena Chionanthi of 

 Abbot and Smith, having rediscovered the species in a col- 

 lection of Noctuidce sent me from Ithaca, N. Y., b}' Professor 

 Comstock of Cornell University. It had not been men- 

 tioned previously, and since its first description in 1797, by 

 any other author, to my knowledge. In my generic diag- 

 nosis, I gave as a character the spinose tibiae. Mr. Morrison 

 recently speaks of my generic description in the present vol- 

 ume of the Annals, p. 95, and says: "In his generic de- 

 scription Mr. Grote states that the tibiae are spinose ; this is 

 apparently an error, as the only spines present are the pair 

 before the spines on the middle tibiae and a single spine 

 (there possibly may have been two) between the two pairs 

 of spurs on the hind tibioe." I have again examined my 

 specimen of Adita chionanthi. The middle tibiae have eight 

 spines arranged iu irregular pairs, besides several other finer 

 spinules massed on the joint. The hind tibiae have three 

 spines, and in perfectly fresh specimens will probably show 

 at least four. It has been noticed by European entomolo- 

 gists that the spines on the legs in the Noctuidoc are, on occa- 

 sion, accidentally absent. The fore tibiae appear to me now 

 to show merely the terminal claw which I have compared to 

 that of Oncocnemis. I conclude, therefore, that my original 

 statement, as applied to the middle and hind tibia? of Adita, 

 is correct. 



