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5 and tlie strong internal, dash. Three specimens from Texas, Bel- 

 frage. This may be in collections under Giienee's name. The basal 

 dash is very fine, irregular; the tegulse are edged within with blackish; 

 this form is allied to edolata^ and is more distinctly marked than xylini- 

 formis. Belfrage's numbers are 68 ^ , 699 5 . 

 Xyliniformis Guen., l!7oct. 3, 400; Eiley, 5th Mo. Eeport, p. 126 (larva). 



Western and Southern States. 

 LWiospila Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. K H. 240, 1874; check list of K"oct., 



pi. 1, fig. 2. Eastern and Middle States. 



%Eulonche Grote (1873). 



OUinita Abb. & Sm. Ins. Ga. 2, 157, pi. 94. Southern States. 



Mr. Thaxter has drawn my attention to the fact that the northern 

 form may be distinct. Although I am not prepared to admit it, and it 

 may be that the larva varies, careful breeding is needed to be quite 

 sure of the name we give our northern species. 

 Lanceolaria Grote, Proc. Ac. K. S. Phil. 418, 1875. Massachusetts. 

 Insolita Grote, Bull. B. S. JST. S. 1, 82. Pennsylvania. 



Under the generic name Cyatliissa, I would separate the BryopMla 

 percara of Mr. Morrison from that genus on account of the notch in the 

 external margin of i^rimaries and the difi:ering proportions, the narrower 

 wings. It is evidently not congeneric with Lepidula and the European 

 types of Bryophila. I restore Treitschke's name to this latter" genus 

 because Hubner's term has been diversely used, and to reintroduce it 

 might cause confusion. I am ijrepared to surrender every point where 

 a strict enforcement of priority might inure to the detriment of our 

 science. I hope that the anti-Hubnerists will accept the few genera 

 which I have felt obliged to introduce, such as Lithophane, which are 

 unobjectionable in every way. 



In explanation of my synonymy I draw attention to my corrections 

 of the redescriptions in the "Missouri Eeports" of some of our common 

 Noctuidce. ISTo specimens of these were submitted to me for identification, 

 nor am I credited with such work in the reports. I determined Agrotis 

 scandens in the first report as a new species, which at the time it was. 



Aeronycta populi of Eiley is Guenee's Lepusculma; I made the cor- 

 rection in my earliest list (1873, p. 79). Prodenia autumnalis Eiley is 

 the corn- bud worm of Abbot, who figured the moth in all stages in the 

 Insects of Georgia. It is figured under Abbot's name of Frugiperda 

 also by Hubner. In the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences, vol. i, p. 81, this correction is made by me nearly ten years 

 ago. Xylina cinerea of Eiley is Lithophane antennata of Walker. I 

 made this correction in the Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. vol. v, Ko. 2, in 1879, 

 assisted by Professor Fernald's identification of Walker's type in the 

 British Museum. I am also of opinion, and have expressed it, that 

 Amphipyra conspersa is an aberration of Pyramidoides. The identifica- 



