348 GROTE—GORTYNA AND ALLIED GENERA. [May 4, 
except where I refer in 1874 and 1882 a group of species to 
Apamea, I use Gortyna for the entire genus, so far as the American 
forms are concerned. In the first catalogue of North American 
Noctuide, in which I brought the material into accord with 
Lederer’s system, as far as then (1874) possible, I followed 
Guenée’s use of the terms Aydrecia and Gortyna in the Species 
Général (see Bul. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sciences, April, 1874). This list 
of mine in 1874 is the basis of all subsequent lists or catalogues of 
the North American Noctuidz. 
1882. Grote, Mew Check List, New York, 29. 
Here the N. Am. species are divided under two generic titles: 
Apamea' (= Gortyna Ochs. = Hydrecia Guen.) and Gortyna 
Guen. This separation is not tenable, since the thoracic tuftings 
upon which it is based are variable and the names are moreover 
wrongly applied. In thus using 4famea I really followed Guenée, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 6, 335, whothere refers to it: mctitans L. and 
other species not belonging here. My action amounted to a sub- 
stitution.of Apamea for Aydrecia, which cannot be followed and 
was subsequently abandoned by me. 
1890. Grote, Revised Check List, Bremen, Riihle & Schleuker, 
Ds 20: 
The, North American species, with smooth clypeus, are all re- 
ferred to Gortyna, but the genus is erroneously credited to Hiibner 
(see above). j 
1895. Grote, Ad. des natur. Vereins zu Bremen, xiv, Seite 43- 
128. 
In this list the North American species are referred to Gortyna, 
and the genus is correctly given to Ochsenheimer, under Hiibner’s 
restriction in the Verzeichniss. Thus I ‘finally ’’ use Gortyna and 
not Hydrecia for the genus. 
By the foregoing sketch the original use and restriction of 
Gortyna in early European literature is exhibited, and I connect 
this precedent with my use of the term for our American species. 
1 The name “ Apamea stramentosa’’ in Canadian lists probably came from me, 
since I originally determined the species for correspondents in Canada, and am 
seemingly the only author who referred the species to “ 4famea.” I com- 
menced to determine the Am. Gortyne in the sixties, for Prof. Riley, Mr. 
Graef, etc. 
