HEPIALIDiE, NOCTUID^. 
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Hepialid^. 
Hepialus excrescens and mmulus, A. G. Butler, redescribed and figured 
by him; 111. Lep. Het. ii. p. 20, pi. xxvii. figs. 7 & 8. H. Imtus^ 0. Stau- 
dinger, noticed and figured by N. M. Romanoff, Hor. Ent. Ross. xiv. 
p, 489, pi. iii. fig. 1. 
Hepialus auratiis, A. R. Grote, Oanad. Ent. x. p. 18, New York; H. 
sangaris^ H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, p. 136, pi. xi. fig. 5, Arizona: spp. nn. 
NoCTUIDiE. 
Grote, A. R. Descriptions of new Noctum^ with Remarks on the varia- 
tion of Larval Forms in the Group. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. xi. pp. 300-306 
(Dec., 1876). 
The introductory pTart of the paper relates more to representative 
European and N. American forms than to larvae. 
. Descriptions of Noctuidce^ chiefly from California. Bull. U. S. 
Geol. Surv. iv. pp. 169-187. 
Includes numerous remarks on known species, of which only the more 
important require special notice here. > 
R. Thaxter describes the larvae of Apatela radcUffii, Harv., A. spini- 
gera, Grote, Caloeampa nupera^ Lintn., C. curvimacula, Morr., and Calpe 
canadensis, Beth. ; Psyche, ii. pp. 121-123. 
On the Insect Fauna of the White Mountains (chiefly respecting 
Noctum, and controversial) ; Morrison & Grote, Psyche, i. pp. 85, 99 & 
100 . 
List of Noctuidce taken near Newton, Mass. ; R. Thaxter, Psyche, ii. 
pp. 34-39, 80. 
Bryophila raptricula, Hiibn. O, Staudinger describes var. striata from 
Asia Minor ; Hor. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 366. 
Acronycta myricce, Guen., = A. euphorhice, var. montivaga, Guen. ; 
Staudinger & White, Scot. Nat. iv. p. 199, & Ent. xi. p. 41, but c/. N. F. 
Dobree, Ent. xi. p. 69. 
Panthea leucomelana, Morr., probably = Audela acronyctoides, Walk.; 
A. R. Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 169. 
Orthosia pistacina, sb. ruhetra, $ in cop. Miselia oxyacanthce, $; 
Stockmayer, Ent. Nachr. iv. p. 20. 
Leucania turca with pollinia of Hahernaria hifolia attached to the 
trunk ; J. J. Weir, P. E. Soc. 1878, p. xxxix. 
Tapinostola hondi. Habits of larva ; W. H. Tugwell, Ent. xi. p. 252. 
Porrima sanguinea, Geyer. Structural characters noticed ; A. R. 
Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 798. 
Hydrcecia micacea noticed ; Mabille & Ragonot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
viii. p. cxx. 
Gortyna flavago. Larva supposed to be injurious to potatoes, by bor- 
ing into the stems; R. McLachlan, P. E. Soc. 1878, p, xli. 
Xylophasia indocilis, Walk., = Apamea gemina, pale var. ; X. libera, 
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