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VIII. Descriptions of Noctuidae principally from 

 California 



BY AUG. E. GROTE. 

 {Read before this Society, August 1, 1873.) 



I OWE to the kiuduess of Professor A. S. Packard, Jr., of the 

 Peabody Acaderay of Science, Salem, Mass., a collection of Moths 

 from California and the Territory of ISTevada, for study and identi- 

 fication. The collections had been sent by Mr. Hy. Edwards and 

 Mr. James Behrens, to whom credit is given in the present Paper. 

 From the condition of some of the specimens and the necessity of 

 having a larger material for examination, I have not been able to 

 catalogue the entire collection at the present writing, and hope to 

 be able to turn again to the subject on receiving the necessary 

 material. 



I have included in this Paper notes on certain species received 

 from other correspondents to wliom I am indebted for the favor. 



Habrosyne scripta (Gosse). 



Hahitat, Sitka (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 137). 



The specimen (in poor condition) does not seem to differ from 

 our Eastern material. The species is very near the European H. 

 derasa. This genus and Thyatira have a singular distribution. 

 Habrosyne has one European species, derasa ; one Asiatic, gloriosa ; 

 one North American, scripta. Thyatira is credited with one Euro- 

 jjean, Batis; one Asiatic, vicina; one North American species, 

 pudens. The specific differences in each genus are slight, and are 

 perhaps due to the effects of climate, since our N. A. species of 

 either genus are brighter colored than the European. I remark, 

 however, that the larval forms of our species are unknown. Again 



BUL. BUF. SOC. NAT. SCI. (17)' AUGUST, 1873. 



