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seen but one specimen wliich cannot, I believe, remain associated with the rest. 

 Spinosae should be referred back to HeliothiSj wliich wants the claws of 

 Lygranthoecia and the other genera, and has the ovipositor concealed.] 



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 *EUSTROTIA Iluhn. 

 obaiirata Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 154. 



*PROTHTMIA Hubn. (1816). 



Type : Prothymia aenea Huhn. non 8. V. 



semiflava (Guen.), Noct. 2, p. 241 (Xanthoptera). 



coccineifascia [Grote), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 4, 294, PL 1, fig. 89 {Xanthoptera) ; 



Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. Hist., 154 {Prothymia). 

 rosalba {Grote), 1. c, 295, PI. 1, fig. 88 {Xanthoptera). 



XANTHOPTERA Guen. 



Type: Xanth. nigrofimbria Guen. 

 ni^roflmbria Guen., Noct. 2, 241, PI. 10, fig. 12. 



EXTRA Grote (1875). 



Type : Xanthoptera semicrocea Guen. 



semicrocea {Guen.), Noct. 2, 241 {Xanthoptera). 



Ridiugsii {Riley), Trans. St. Louis Acad. Nat. Sci., 1874, 240 {Xanthoptera) ; 



Xanth. nigrocaput ]SIorr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 152. 

 fax {Grote), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 4, 295. 



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PSEUDOLIMACODES Grote (1874). 



Type : Pa. niveicostatus Grote. 



niveicostatus Grote, Stett. Ent. Zeit., Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil., 1874, 212. New 

 York ; Massachusetts. 



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 *CATOCALA Schrank. 



communis Grote ; C. neogamaX Guen., Noct. 3, 96. 

 neog'ama {Ahh. & Sm.), Ins. Ga., 88 {Phalaena). 



[Note. — Specimens recently received from Texas have brigher yellow hind 

 wings, as figured by Abbot. The northern species has tliom of a buff yellow, 

 as described by Quenc'e who notices the difference.] 



