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rangement, he places the red underwings first, then the white, then the 
black, then the large yellow, and finally the small yellow. He places 
Parthenos and Allotria before Catocala. 
Walker in the Cat. Brit. Museum, Noctuelite 1193-1209, gives a 
synopsis of the American species by themselves. He follows the order 
of Guenee, and his list is incorporated by Morris in his Catalogue of the 
Noctuide of N. A. 
In 1872, Mr. Grote published in the Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Vol. 
IV, pp. 1-20 a monograph of the genus Cafocala and gave descriptions 
of all the species known to him. In this monograph he follows the order 
of the catalogue of Hubner. He gives as his reason for so doing (Can. 
Ent. IV, 164) “I inaugurate the genus with the black winged species 
from the consideration that such species are not found in other conti- 
nents, and that in North America the genus attains its fullest represen- 
tation. I allow them to precede the more typical specific forms such as 
certain of the red winged species and conclude with the yellow winged 
Catocale, as has been customary with regard to the European species.” 
In 1872, in his work ‘‘the Rhopalocera and Heterocera of N. A.”, 
Mr. Strecker began to give descriptions, with colored figures of all the 
Catocale. The work follows no order whatever in the giving of the 
species, and, yet incomplete, has appeared only at irregular intervals; 
but it is the most notable addition to the literature of the genus which 
has ever appeared. 
In 1875, Mr. Hy. Edwards issued in Proc, Ac. Sc. Cal., a mono— 
graph of the species of Caéocala found on the Pacific Coast; and in the 
same publication, 1877, gave a new catalogue of the Pacific species. 
Mr. Grote has published several catalogues of the species, the last 
appearing in 1882. 
In 1880, the author of the present paper published Bull. Brooklyn 
Entom. Soe. a catalogue of the species. In this Mr. Grote’s order of 
sequence was inverted, on the ground that the small yellow winged 
species seemed to follow naturally after Syxeda and Parthenos, and the 
black ones ending the list, naturally led to Sfeloloma and Spintherops. 
This catalogue was followed in a check-list, published by the Brooklyn 
Ent. Soc, in 1882. 
