IG T0ETEIC1D.E. 



I should have been content to drop Walker's two names in favour of poUtana, Haw., being 

 thus guided entirely by Zeller ; but he seems to state his views rather as opinions only, than 

 as conclusions which need -ixo further verification. Finding it impossible to conceive that 

 Herrich-ScliUffer's figure (4'13) of lepidana, H.-S.j which is a synonym oi politana, Haw., 

 and Robinson's figures of incertana and lutosana, could have been intended for the same 

 species, I have carefully compared specimens of these latter with a large series of the European 

 politana, of which, however, I have no German specimens. With the exception of some few 

 varieties, which do not approach the American forms, the whole of the series-agree well with 

 Herrich-Schaffer's figure, but not with those of Robinson nor with my American examples. 

 I have therefore been induced to retain. Walker's name for the present, until some further 

 evidence is brought to bear upon the matter. Walker's specimen of triferana is a female, 

 not a male, as stated by him in his catalogue ; his two specimens of velutinana are both males. 



Walker's other North- American species are : — 



Lophoderus"^ semiferanus, Walk. : see Caccecia semiferana, p. 7. 



vestitanus, Walk., of which the type is missing in the British-Museum collection. 



melaleucanus , Walk. : see Ptycholoma melaleucanum, p. 10. 



(ENECTRA, Guen. 

 (Enectra inconditana. (Plate LXIII. fig. 10.) 



Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi oehreous, slightly brownish at the sides ; antennae 

 brownish ochreous, ciliated on both sides in the male. Fore wings not more than twice as 

 long as wide — with the eosta rounded at the base, slightly arched beyond it ; the apex slightly 

 produced ; the apical margin nearly straight — together with the cilia unicolorous oehreous, 

 with a slight brownish shade at the base of the eosta. Hind wings and cilia whitish ochreous. 

 Underside of all the wings tinged and faintly reticulated with bright saffron towards the 

 margins. Legs and abdomen pale ochreous, saffron beneath. 3 (J, 1 $ . Expanse of 

 wings 20 millims. 



Pitt River, California, July 26, 1871, and Rouge River, S. Oregon, May 1872. 



(Enectra rudana. (Plate LXIV. figs. 1 & 2.) 



Palpi chestnut-brown, paler beneath, nearly three times the length of the head ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen somewhat paler j antennae pubescent in the male. Fore wings — with 

 the eosta nearly straight, apex acute — ochreous or straw-colour ; the eosta brown at the base, 

 with a brownish-purple abbreviated fascia, of varying length, extending from the eosta before 

 the middle obliquely outwards towards the dorsal. margin; a wide spot of the same colour at 

 the eosta, beyond the middle, may sometimes be traced by a row of dots in a crescent across the 

 cell, which in one variety are reduplicated towards the apical margin ; a faint chestnut-brown 

 shade runs along the apical margin within the cilia, which are slightly paler than the wings : 



