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788 General Notes. [July, 
great value. Each species is illustrated by wood cuts in the 
text. 
ENTOMOLOGY.’ 
A UNIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL Nocrurp.—The accompanying fig- 
ure represents one of the most striking and unique of our N. 
Noctuids in respect of color and 
©. pterogostic design, the general color 
E being of a bright golden-yellow, and 
# the lines and shades of a deeper gold, 
inclining to ferruginous or even och- 
e 
on ? 4 
Cirrophanus triangulifer Grt. a, 1871 we submitted it to a number of 
> > , at L . . . . i 
hind aaa Paw ue, sa lepidopterists both in this country 
and in Europe, when, finding that it 
was unknown and could not well be referred to any defined ge- 
nus, we gave it a MS. name, hoping some day to obtain = 
female. In the summer of 1872 Mr. A. R. Grote visited St. 
notes thereon, and among others took a hasty descripaah ) 
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study, was quite imperfect, all important structura si 
omitted, and some of the characters given belonging to the 
only. The description was accompanied by a statement OF © 
getfulness as to the source of the type, which, considering a 
fact that we were pretty well known to Mr. Grote at the timeat l 
p. 122), while Mr. Grote amplified his own description in cto: 
of the same year (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1875, P: 421) tat : 
however, to the affinities of the species that we wish to R 
tention. Grote at first allied it with Gortyna, leaving 
7 š D. C., to whom 
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