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Plusia. List of 39 North American species by A. R. Grote, Canad. 
Ent. vii. pp. 204 & 205 ; the following are still undetermined : - omicron, 
Linn., falcigera and rectangula^ Kirb., flagellum, indigna, selecta, and 
secedens, Walk. P. alticola, Walk., and ignea, Grote, = P. hochenwarthi, 
Hochenw., and Leptina formosa, Grote, is a Plusia ; H. K. Morrison, 
Ann. Lyc. N. York, xi. pp. 98 & 99. P. fratella, Grote, = ou, Gu^n., 
according to H. K. Morrison, but denied by A. R. Grote, Canad. Ent. 
vii. pp. 79 & 99. P. gamma, var. ? californica, fully described by A. 
Speyer, S. E. Z. xxxvi. p. 164. P. interrogationis : food plant ; H. A. 
Kelly & F. B. White, Scot. Nat. iii. p. 9. P. microgamma, Hiibn. : larva 
described; F. Sintenis, SB. Ges. Dorp. iv. pp. Ill & 112. 
Cosmopliila edentata, Walk., == indica, Guen. ; A. G. Butler, 1. c. 
p. 405. 
Amphipyra pyramidoides, Guen. Transformations described, with 
figures of larva and imago ; W. Saunders, Canad. Ent. vii. pp. 14 & 15. 
Bolina nigrescens, G. & R., is distinct from fasciolaris, Hiibn. ; A. R. 
Grote, Tr. Am. E. Soc. v. p. 116. B. ochreipennis, L. F. Harvey, figured by 
him ; 1. c, pi. ii. fig. 10. 
Syneda graphica, Hiibn., var. media, described by H. K. Morrison, P. 
Bost. Soc. xviii. p. 125. S. stretchi, Behr, = howlandi, Grote ; A. R. 
Grote, 1. c. p. 117. 
Catocala levettii, Grote, = judith, Streck., anna, Grote, = amestris, 
Streck., adoptiva, Grote, = delilah, Streck., concumhens. Walk., is very 
close to pacta, Linn., simulatilis, Grote, = ohscura, Streck., $ , residua, 
Grote, is a common form of insolahilis, Guiin. ; H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, 
pp. 105 & 106. C. electa, Borkh., stated to have occurred at Brighton ; 
A. Vine, Ent. viii. pp. 282 & 283. C. ilia, Cram. : larva described ; F. B. 
Caulfield, Canad. Ent. vii. pp. 208 & 209. C. nupta with AcaH attached 
to forewing instead of to body ; Phippson, P. E. Soc. 1875, p. xxiii. 
Ophideres. The proboscis is modified into a strong rigid boring instru- 
ment, armed with spines, with which the insect pierces the skin of 
oranges, and sucks the juice (that oi A.fullonicai^ figured) ; J. Kunckel, 
C. R. Ixxxi. pp. 397-400 (translation, Ann. N. H., 4, xvi. pp. 372-374), and 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. p. ccxii. The structure of the proboscis of 
0. fullonica is also described with figures by F. Darwin, Q. J. Mien 
Sci. XV. pp. 384-389, and is referred to in M. Micr. J. xix. pp. 235 
& 236. 
Hypopyra anteponens and Remigia venusta. Walk., = Entomogramma 
pardus, Gu4n. ; A. G. Butler, 1. c. p. 406. 
Drasteria erichtea. Cram. Transformations described and imago 
figured ; W. Saunders, 1. c. pp. 115-117. 
Euclidia triquetra, Fabr. Transformations described ; A Rogenhofer, 
1. c. p. 800. 
Litomitus elongatus, Grote, = Celiptera frustulum, (j:\xiji. \ H. K. Mor- 
rison, Canad. Ent. vii. p. 79. 
Remigia. A. G. Butler redescribes nigrifrontalis, Walk., and 
refers it to this genus ; 1. c. p. 408. 
Remigia latipes, var. texana, Morr. : H. K. Morrison now considers this 
form to be distinct, and calls it R. texana^, P. Ac. Philad. 1875, p. 7L 
