Noctuidae 



Genus PIPPONA Harvey 



The only species hitherto referred to this 

 genus is found in Texas. We give in the cut, 

 which is herewith presented, a figure of a speci- 

 men which is contained in .the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and which was care- 

 fully drawn for this book by Mrs. Beutenmuller. FIG. 

 It was named bimatris by Dr. Harvey. na bimatris,. 



Genus BESSULA Grote 



Through the kindness of the authorities of the British Museum 

 and Sir George F. Hampson I am able to give herewith a figure 



FIG. 128. Bessula luxa. 



of the type of the genus and species, which is preserved in the 

 Grote Collection. The moth occurs in New Mexico and Colorado. 



Genus OXYCNEMIS Grote 



This genus is composed wholly of species which are found 

 in the southwestern portions of our ter- 

 ritory. Of one of these, found in 

 California, to which Smith has applied 

 the specific name fusimacula, we are 

 permitted to give a figure taken from a 

 specimen preserved in the American 

 Museum of Natural History. It was drawn by Mrs. Beutenmuller. 



FIG. 129. Oxycnemis 

 fusimacula. $ . ^. 



Genus NYCTEROPH^ETA Smith 

 (i) Nycterophaeta luna Morrison, Plate XXVII, Fig. 9, $ . 



Syn. magdalena Hulst; notatella Grote. 



The moth ranges from Dakota and Montana southward to 

 southern Colorado. 



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