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The synonymy of the cotton-moth then remains as follows : 

 Aletia argillacea, Httbner, Zutr. zu Sam. Exot. Schmet. 2 es Hund., p. 32. n. 200, figs. 



399, 400. 

 Noctua xylina, Say. Correspondence relative to the insect that destroys the Cotton 



Plant. New Harmony Disseminator, 1830. 

 Anomfe grandipuncta, Gueue"e, Noctue"lites, vol. 2, p. 400 (1852). 

 Anomis Mpunctina, Guene"e, Noctuelites, vol. 2, p. 401, id., vol. 3, p. 397 (1852). 

 Anomis xylina, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vol. 3, p. 541, 1864. 

 Aletia argillacea, Hiibn., Grote, List Noctuidaj of North America, p, 24, 1874. 



