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\rol. X. JUNE, 1902. No. 2. 



PLUSIA AND ALLIED GENERA WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



(Plates VI-IX.) 



By Rodrigues Ottolengui, New York. 



About six years ago I announced my intention of monographing 

 the Phisias of North America, and by this time I have no doubt that 

 many have imagined that I had abandoned the project. The truth is, 

 that there is already sufficient confusion in the literature of entomology 

 to render it obligatory upon a new writer to work slowly and if pos- 

 sible to delay publication until such time as he may have data before 

 him, of such character as will, or should, prevent his making new 

 errors, while attempting a correction of the old. 



I must confess that even now I do not consider that I have termi- 

 nated my study of this interesting group, but the promise of a new 

 catalogue by Dr. Dyar has made it seem advisable for me to publish a 

 paper, in which I may record the results of my investigations so far as 

 they have gone. Having occupied myself exclusively with the identi- 

 fication of the names already in our list, I have made no effort to 

 distinguish between genera, though convinced by superficial observa. 

 tion that the single name Plusia is inadequate to cover the quite 

 divergent forms that hitherto have been thus indicated. The time 

 being short, therefore, and feeling entirely unwilling, indeed incapable 

 of erecting structural characters upon which to rest generic nomina- 

 tions, I have referred that portion of the work to Dr. Dyar, whose 

 paper, separating the Plusia group into different genera is published 

 herewith. 



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