73 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Noctuid Moths 



Methorasa monetifera. 



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Eriopus monetifera, Guene'e, Noct. ii. p. 294. n. 1098. 



E. Florida, New York, &c. Coll. B. M. 



The name Herrichia, which Grote proposed for the mixed 

 assemblage under Eriopus of the United States, cannot be 

 retained for any of the species, as it was used by Staudinger 

 for a genus of Lepidoptera in 1870. 



Herrich-Schaffer probably compared the New- World species 

 with the type of CaUopistria, and consequently came to the 

 conclusion that they were more delicate than the European 

 forms. Haploolophus mollissimus is so, but the others are 

 no more slender in structure than Methorasa Latreillei. As 

 regards his opinion that the American species are more nearly 

 related to Erastria (Eustrotia of Grote's ' Check-list '), I hold 

 that the Callopistriidae are far more nearly related to that 

 genus than to Plusia. 



GNAMPTOCERA, Butler. 



Type Gnamptocera minuta. (PI. IX. figs. 1, la.) 



Callopistria minuta, Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. vii. p. 7, pi. cxxx. fig. 4 

 (1889). 



Dharmsala. Type Coll. B. M. 



Gnamptocera minor. 



Callopistria minor, Hampson, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. viii. p. 81, pi. clxvi, 

 figs. 16, 17 (1891). 



Nilgiris. Type Coll. B. M. 



HAPLOOLOPHUS, Butler. 



Type Haploolophus mollissimus. (PL IX. figs. 3, 3 a.) 

 Eriopus mollissima, Guene'e, Noet. ii. p, 294. n. 1098. 

 East Florida, New York, &c. Type Coll. B. M. 



DISSOLOPHUS, Butler. 



Type Dissolophus chloriza. 

 Eriopus chloriza, Guene'e, Noct. ii. p. 296. n. 1102, 

 Java, Type Coll. B. M. 



