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TOETEICID^. 
I should have been content to drop Walker's two names in favour of politnna, Haw.^ being 
thus guided entirely by Zeller ; but he seems to state his views rather as opinions only, than 
as conclusions which need no further verification. Finding it impossible to conceive that 
Herrich-Schaffer's figure (413) of lejndana, H.-S., which is a synonym of politana, Haw., 
and Robinson's figures of inccrtana 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 Cacoecia semiferana, p. 7. 
vestitanus, Walk., of which the type is missing in the British-Museum collection. 
melaleucanus, Walk. : see PtycJioloma mdaleucanum, p. 10. 
(ENECTRA, Gam. 
(Enectra inconditana. (Plate LXIII. fig. 10.) 
Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi ochreous, slightly brownish at the sides ; antennae 
brownish ochreous, ciliated oii both sides in the male. Fore wings not more than twice as 
long as wide — with the costa rounded at the base, slightly arched beyond it ; the apex slightly 
produced ; the apical margin nearly straight — together with the cilia unicolorous ochreous, 
with a slight brownish shade at the base of the costa. 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 ; antennae pubescent in the male. Fore wings — with 
the costa nearly straight, apex acute' — ochreous or straw-colour ; the costa brown at the base, 
with a broM'nisli-purple abbreviated fascia, of varying length, extending from the costa before 
the middle obliquely outwards towards the dorsal margin ; a wide spot of the same colour at 
the costa, beyond the middle, may sometimes be traced by a row of dots in a crescent across the 
cell, M'hich 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 : 
