189 



Olid basilar rays, in the longer and better defined line in cell 4, and 

 ill the absence of the ferruginous shade over the interno-basilar 

 portion of the wing. It is larger than vetnsta, given by Guenee at 

 5G m. m. expanse, but in an example before me, from the collection 

 of Mr. 0. Meske, measuring only 1.90 in. (-47 m. m.). A $ and ? 

 example of the European exoleta, also of the collection of Mr. 

 Meske, measure respectively 2.50 in. and 3 in., — the ? being ab- 

 normally small. 



Cal. mqjera is represented in fig. 15 of a photographic plate of 

 " Noctuidae, No. 2. Collection of J. A. Lintner," Avhich has been 

 distributed to a limited extent. It is also figured in No 34 of plate 

 82 of Grlover's Lepidoptera, representing examples from the " col- 

 lection of W. Saunders, London, C. W.," as vetusta (Glover MS.). 

 It is inferentially the species recorded in the Grote List, p. 27, as 

 vetusta of Europe and America, and the one cited by the same au- 

 thor in the Sixth Ann. Rep. Peab. Inst., p. 22. It may also be pre- 

 sumed to be i\\Q vetusta of the Morris Catalogue, published in ]860, 

 the source, j^erhaps, of the subsequent erroneous determinations. 



