682 Mr. A. G. Butler '& further notes on the 



MESOGONA, Boisd. 

 1. Mesogona tcedata. 

 ? , Pseudoglcea tccdata, Grote (see Check List, p. 31, 



n. 709). 

 $ $ , P. blanda and P. decepta, Grote (I, c., nn. 710, 11). 



United States. Coll. B. M. 



There are only three examples none of them perfect, 

 and two a good deal worn to represent the three 

 species upon which Pseudoglaa is based : as these three 

 specimens vary less one from the other than our eight 

 specimens of the nearly-allied M. acetosellce, I have been 

 reluctantly obliged to regard them as synonymous. 



2. Mesogona oxalina. 

 Noctua oxalina, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. Noct., pi. 45, 



fig. 219. 

 Ipimorpha intexta, Harvey (see Grote's Check List, 



p. 32, note). 

 Europe and N. America. Coll. B. M. 



ORTHOSIA, Ochs. 

 T&niocampa (part), Guen. 



1. Orthosia incerta. 

 Noctua incerta, Hufnagel, Berl. Monats., in., p. 298, 



n. 424 (1767). 

 Taeniocampa alia, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 352, n. 587 



(1852). 



Europe and United States. Coll. B. M. 

 This is the type of Orthosia, as restricted by Curtis. 



GLJEA, Hubn. 

 1. Glcea vaccinii. 



Phalcena- Noctua vaccinii, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec., p. 320. 

 Noctua spadicea (Schiff.), Hiibn., fig. 179. 

 Var. N. ligula, Esper, Eur. Schmett., pi. 166, fig. 3. 

 Europe. Coll. B. M. 



The describers of Exotic Lepidoptera frequently have 

 to suffer from the bitter onslaught of men whose expe- 

 rience is limited to a study of the European and some- 



