synonymy of the genera of Noctuites. 681 



The so-called " Hiptelia" miniago is the European 

 representative of this species, and belongs to the same 

 genus. 



ENAEGIA, Hiibn. 

 1. Enargia decolor. 



Mythimna decolor, Walker, Lep. Het., xv., p. 1658 



(1858). 

 Var. Cosmia infumata, Grote (see Check List, p. 32, 



n. 735). 

 United States. Coll. B. M. 



BRACHYXANTHIA, Butl. 

 Gortyna inqucesita, Grote, belongs to this genus. 



CIRRCEDIA, Guen. 



C. xerampelina is the type : the structure of the palpi 

 and entire pattern and coloration of C. ambusta are 

 different, and will remove it from the neighbourhood of 

 C. xerampelina. 



CALYMNIA, Hiibn. 



The type of Calymnia is C. trapezina : the other 

 species may be restored to their rightful genus, Cosmia ; 

 the latter name was erroneously applied by Lederer and 

 Staudinger to a group of species, of which only two were 

 included in Cosmia by Ochsenheimer (no type being 

 indicated by him). M. Guenee distinctly indicated 

 C. affinis as the type of Cosmia, and so it must remain. 



PLASTENIS, Boisd. 

 1. Plastenis retusa. 



Phalana-Noctua retusa, Linneus, Faun. Suec., p. 321. 



Cosmia curvata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1886, p. 131. 



Europe and Japan. Coll. B. M. 



The Japanese specimens are slightly larger and darker 

 than most European examples : when I named " Cosmia 

 curvata," we had no European representative in the 

 general collection. This was one of the many desiderata 

 supplied by the Zeller collection. 



