NOCTUIDiE. 
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A. quassa, Walk., = Massala dimidiata, Walk.; A. hypopyrina and 
leucoma, Feld., belong to Pangrapfa, and .4. obvertens, Walk., = Capnodes 
turtur, Feld. ; Homoptera (?) albirena, Walk., = Ilelia calligramma, 
Hubn. ; H. dotata^ quadrisignata, sonata^ and scitior (= perpusilla) 
belong to Metalectra\ H. (?) extranea, Walk., = his Mulelocha frontalis 
and (var.) Blanona dives (? = Selenis compacta, Feld.), and may be 
referred to Mulelocha^ to which H, ocellata^ Walk., is also allied ; H. 
diminutiva, Walk., is a Dagassa ; Gyclopieryx (?) macrops, Feld., = 
Dialithis dioptica^ Walk. ; Bleptina pithesalis^ Walk.; = Megatomis spur- 
catalis^ Walk. ; Menecina bifacies, Walk., = Blanona selenisoides, Walk. ; 
Hypenaria, Guen. : of the species referred to this genus by Walker — H. 
ortilia, orphna, tarchon, and subvelata belong to Argidia ; II. patula = 
Latebraria contacta ; H. sublineata is an Amphigonia ; II. continuens = 
Azeta uncas ; H. punctulosa is a small Lacera ; H. interponens probably 
= H. roseispila ; Capnodes obliterata, Walk., = sterope, Cram. ; C. 
exhilarans, Walk., and P uncinata, Feld., = imitans, Walk.; Phalcena 
striataria. Cram., belongs to Capnodes ; C. mundicola, Walk., redescribed, 
C. rufinans, Walk. = Gerisa discerpta, Walk., $ = Thermesia 
torrida, Walk.), = Capnodes onyx, Gu^n. ; this species, and also C. sub- 
guttata, Feld., and rotundifera, Walk., belong to Gerisa ; C. melanea^ 
Walk., probably belongs to Pangrapta ; C. sexplagiata,'Wd\Vi., = pueritia, 
Cram. ; Apistis, Hiibn., the type is A. fellearia Hiibn. (= Hypernaria 
metastigma, Walk.), and Thermesia (?) infumata, Feld. (= Hypernaria 
anisospila. Walk,), and Plaxia subducta and spiloleuca. Walk., may also 
be placed in the same genus; JSmpelathra, Walk, (type, ampUficans, 
Walk.) : Orthogramma vacillans (= Plaxia ingenua), and Thermesia 
scalena, Feld., may be provisionally referred to this genus. 
Grote, a. R. . On LitJiophane and new Noctuidce. Bull. U. S. Geol. 
Surv. V. pp. 201-208. 
Walker’s American Xylinm are identified by Fernald as follows : — 
antennata = cinerea, Riley, infructuosa ? = petulca ; spoliata and clan- 
facta are not Xylince. 
. The Species of Erotyla, Spragueia, Fruva, Xanthoptera, Exyra, 
and Prothymia. Canad. Ent. xi. pp. 231-238. 
These are discussed with special reference to their neuration, and a list 
of N. American species is added. The following synonyms occur: — 
Spragueia leo, Guen., = onagrus, Herr.-Schalf. (nec Guen.) ; S. trunca- 
tula, Zell., = apicella, Grote ; Exyra nigrocaput[y\, Morr., = ridingsi, 
Riley ; and Prothymia sub-olivacea, Harv., = orgice, G rote. 
A. G. Butler (111. Lep. Het. hi.) figures and redescribes the following 
known Noctuce (his own, unless otherwise stated) : — Gonophora derasoides, 
p. 12, fig. 1, Acronycta leucocuspis and increta, p. 13, figs. 2 & 3, Leucania 
cerata, Alysia grisea, and Dandaca senex, p. 13, figs. 4-6, Agrotis illoba 
and odiosa and Ilermonassa cecilia, p. 14, figs. 7-9, Graphiphora caliginea 
and Dasycampa fornax, p. 15, figs. 10 & 11, Phlogophora beatrix, fig. 12, 
pi. xliv., and Aplcctoides nitida, pi. xlv. fig. 1, p. 16, Eurois virens, Iladena 
lucia, and Xylina arctipennis, p. 17, figs. 6, 2 & 3, LitJiophane saga and 
Cucvllia fraterna, p. 18, figs. 9 & 10, Ileliothis adanita and Acontia hi- 
