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portant specific characters are given, while no dependence can be placed on 

 the generic references in cases at all difficult. The present identification has 

 been made by Mr. Lintner on a comi:)arison with Mr. Strecker's specimen.] 



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*PLUSIA Eub)i. {180G). 



Type : Noctua chrysitis Linn. 



epigaea Orote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1874, 208. 

 labrosa Orote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1874, 207. 

 t *(leYergens (Hubn.); Mosch., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1874, 317. 



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 *ANARTA OcAs. (1816). 

 t Zetterstedtii {Stand.) ; Mosch., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1874, 317. 



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 * PTERHIA Hubn. 



angulata Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. (Sept., 1874). 

 illiterata Grote, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Phil., 1874, 211. 



TA3IILA Guen. 

 tertia Grote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1874, 212. 



[Note. — To this genus both Tricopis and Euleucyptera are strongly related, 

 and they should perhaps not be separated from it. From Heliothis and Meli- 

 cleptria, the three genera differ by the admixture of flattened scales on the 

 thorax. Heliothis, as used in the " List," wants the extruded oviduct. I have 

 recently been able to examine a specimen of E. cumntilis, through the kindness 

 of Prof. Snow. From my figure the specimen merely differed by an increased 

 size and the obsolescence of the discal spots above. The short fore tibiae have 

 a stout, rather short and blunt claw on the inside, and two only on the outside, 

 not a decreasing series as in Tricopis. The shape of the wings resembles 

 Tricopis. My original description giving unarmed fore tibiae to Euleucyptera, 

 must be corrected.] 



[Note. — The following is an attempt, with the scanty material at my dis- 

 posal, to classify the North American species allied to Heliothis. 



Thoracic vestiture composed of flattened scales sparsely mixed with hair, 1. 

 Thoracic vestiture entirely hairy, 2. 



1. Fore wings pointed at apices, with full costal edge ; fore tibiae with a 

 row of three stout, outer claws, and a longer inner terminal claw ; eyes full ; 

 tibiae spinose ; fore wings satiny white, divided medially by a honey-brown 

 fascia Tricopis clirysollus Grote. 



