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XX. Further notes on the synonymy of the genera of 

 Noctuites. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S'., F.Z.S., 



&c. 



[Read September 3rd, 1890.] 



To some of the groups already treated of, I have a few 

 additional notes to record ; I shall therefore take them 

 in the order in which they now stand in the Museum 

 cabinets. 



CYMATOPHOBIDJL 

 PROMETOPUS, Guen. 

 1. Prometopus inassueta. 

 Prometopus inassueta, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 38, n. 42 



(1852). 

 Bryophila dorsivaria, Walk., Lep. Het., 15, p. 1648 



(1858). 



Australia and Tasmania. 



M. Guenee placed this genus in his heterogeneous 

 family Bombycoidce ; it is, however, allied to Cymato- 

 phora. 



NOCTUHXE. 

 OCHROPLEURA, Hubn. 



In the Grote collection I found an example of 0. plecta, 

 which is labelled, probably in error, " Valeria grotei, 

 Morr." 



It is a very remarkable thing that Ochropleura y a genus 

 founded by one of Mr. Scudder's favourite authors, is 

 amongst the many lepidopterous genera omitted from 

 the ' Nomenclator Zoologicus.' 



MENTAXYA, Hiibn.* 

 Eugrapha, Hiibner = Ariathisa, Walk. 



1. Mentaxya amatura. 



Agrotis amatura, Walker, Lep. Het., 15, p. 1700 

 (1858). 



* This genus is extremely close to Anicla, Grote, which may 

 have to be amalgamated with it. 



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