1900.] GROTE—GORTYNA AND ALLIED GENERA. 347 
fore, be credited to Ochsenheimer, and my former reference to the 
Tentamen: Buffalo Check List, 37, must be canceled. The error 
will have happened in copying out my notes, and from its being on © 
my mind that Hiibner fixed the type, but its correction practically 
strengthens my position, as to the use of Goertyna for this type, for 
those nomenclators who still reject the Tentamen ; although it is 
difficult to conceive how this course can be reconciled with the 
statements printed by Mr. Scudder, Lord Walsingham, and by my- 
self as early as 1875-6, at the same time showing respect for the 
action of the law of priority. Hutibner’s use of Gortyna indicates 
that this portion of the Verzeichniss was published after Ochsen- 
heimer’s volume appeared. Through Hiibner the genus Gortyna 
receives for the first time a diagnosis, though but a brief and unim- 
portant one. Ochsenheimer gives no generic characters whatever. 
It seems to me the present statement must define the right of 
Gortyna to its type, and this beyond peradventure. 
1829. Boisduval, Zur. Lep. Index Methodicus, p. 84. 
Here the name Gortyna is credited to Treitschke and referred as 
a synonym to ‘‘ Xanthia mihi !’’ 
1840. Boisduval, Genera et Index Methodicus, 144: cuprea, mica- 
cea, flavago, lunata, luteago. 
The name Gortyna is properly credited now to Ochsenheimer 
and ‘* Xanthia, Boisd. ofim’’ referred as a synonym. 
1837. Guenée, 4mm. Soc. Ent. fr., 6, 329: celsia, flavago, lute- 
ago, micacea, leucostigma. 
1852. Guenée, Sp. Gen. des Lep., 5, 120: lunata, xanthenes, 
meesiaca, flavago, rutila, marginidens, limpida, nebris, nitela. 
Flavago is given as type (p. 122), but this is impossible, since 
the type of Gortyna became micacea, through Hiibner’s action in 
1816. 
1857. Lederer, Woctuinen Europa’s, 120: flavago. 
But the name Gortyna cannot, as above stated, be restricted to 
this type. 
1876. Grote, Check List of the Noctuide of America north of 
Mexico, Buffalo, Reinecke & Zesch, 37. 
I give here the type of Gortyna as micacea, but refer the name 
incorrectly to the Tentamen, 1806. In my lists and other writings, 
