JVo.3.] GROTE ON MOTHS, CATALOGUE OF NOCTUiE. 575 



^Lepitoreuma Grote (-1873). 



Ovata Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S. 1, 80, pi. 2, fig. 14. Eastern and Middle 



States. 

 Uxilis Grote, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil. 197, 1874. Middle States. 

 Hamamelis Guen., Noct. 1, 52; Goodell, Can. Eut. 9, 61. Larva on 

 Chestnut. Guen^e gives the larva on Hamamelis Yirginiana. His 

 description is comparative with Bumicis. This species varies very 

 much in color and somewhat in size. I have examined a very large 

 series, but without findiug intermediate specimens between it and the 

 dark and smaller inereta or the pale and still smaller dis&pcta. 

 Haesitata n. s. 



Two specimens from Pennsylvania are as large as the largest Hama- 

 melis, and differ by the primaries being of a jiurely dull and pale bluish 

 gray without any admixture of yellowish or olivaceous. The usual 

 dark shading on sub-basal and subterminal spaces is reduced to a mini- 

 mum. The hind wings are very dark. The dash at base of primaries is 

 reduced. This form is easily recognized but may not be a distinct 

 species. In my collection. 



Inereta Morrison, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 131, 1874. Eastern and Mid- 

 dle States. 

 Bisseeta G. & E., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 6, 178. Canada to Middle States. 



^Arctomyscis Hiibn. (1816). 



Sperata Grote, Bull. Buff. S. N. S. 1, 81, pi. 2, fig. 1. Eastern and Mid- 

 dle States. 



§ MastipJianes Grote. 



Edolata Grote, Papilio 1, 153. Arizona. 



This is one of the finest forms in the genus. It is larger than xylini- 

 formis, shaded diffusely with dead black longitudinally on fore wings, 

 which are cut by the whitish, strongly-toothed t. p. line. The hind 

 wings are white. I have seen a large number of perfectly coinciding 

 examples in Mr. Neumoegen's collection, to whom I am indebted for 

 two types in my own. The tegulae are shaded with black. 

 Extricata n. s. 



^ 5 . Hind wings white in both sexes, showing in the 9 a slight in- 

 dication of a mesial band marked on costa. Size, large; the $ expands 

 38, the 9 46 mil. Very close to xyliniformis, but with a fine basal 

 dash ; the mark at internal angle obsolete. The t. p. line is denticu- 

 late, white-edged, not shaded with black. The terminal black dashes 

 distinct. The orbicular is moderjtte, ringed, concolorous; the reniform 

 indistinct, shaded with dusky. The t. p. line is thrown out as in its 

 ally. It is to be regretted that M. Guenue did not give fuller details, 

 because there are several species in which the t. p. line is thrown out 

 and the wings long. I have identified xyUniformis, which has been 

 reared by Professor Eiley, on account of the soiled hind wings of the 



