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G. blanca Barnes (49 g). Pure white with similar spots as in harveyi, hut whereas in the latter the blanca. 
antemedian spots are situate underneath each other and the central one is removed towards the base, all three 
are here in an oblique line; the postmedian row only contains 3 spots, another postcellular spot being distally 
removed. Hindwing white, apically smoky with a discal band of a brownish-grey colour. Arizona. 
G. dis Grot. (49 g). Forewing white, the small spots arranged as in blanca, but mostly very small and dis. 
some being absent. Hindwing monotonously greyish-brown. Widely distributed from New Mexico, Arizona 
to Mexico. 
G. parvipuncta B. &■ McD. (49 a). Like dis, but not pure white but yellowish-white, the black dots parvipunc- 
cpiite indistinct or absent. Hindwing smoky grey. New Mexico. t<L 
G. stretchi B. & Benj. (49 a). Forewing yellowish-white with 3 diminutive black dots, an antemedian stretchi. 
one on the submedian fold, one at the cell-end, and a postmedian one likewise on the submedian fold. Hindwing 
smoky grey. California. 
G. vagans B. <£• Benj. (49 g). Forewing white, feebly hued with yellowish-grey, the black dots mostly vagans. 
absent or, if present, arranged as in parvipuncta ; base of fringes feebly darkened with greyish-brown. Hindwing 
dark greyish-brown. Nevada. 
G. binda Barnes (49 g). Forewing white, feebly tinted yellowish, black costal-marginal spots at the binda. 
base, centre and subapically, then 4 instead of the antemedian line, one at the cell-end, a postmedian row of 
7 to 9 small intense spots, and finally at the margin between the veins quadrangular black spots. Hindwing 
whitish, apically feebly brownish. A small species from Arizona and New Mexico. 
G. tricolor (49 g) is pure white, similarly spotted as binda, but with a brown nebulous line in the tricolor. 
subterminal area and 8 or 9 black subterminal spots behind it, which may be partly connected like the 
postmedian ones. Hindwing brownish-grey. Arizona. 
G. soror B. & McD. (49 g). Forewing yellowish-white, at the hind-margin all white, similarly spotted soror. 
as binda, but besides with a large brown apical spot with 2 diminutive brown strigiform spots before it and 2 
small blackish-brown spots above the anal angle; fringes speckled brown. Hindwing greyish-brown with a 
broad darker marginal band. Arizona, described from 1 $. 
G. grisescens B. <4* McD. (49 g). Forewing olive yellowish, in the lower half of the discal area brown, griscsccns. 
Hindwing light smoky brown. The collar is contrastingly lemon-coloured. New Mexico. 
G. olivacea B. <£■ McD. (49 h) has olive-brown forewings with dark brown transverse lines, the oUvacca. 
posterior line dentate behind the cell; the reniform macula is represented by a small light spot at the cell-end. 
Hindwing greyish-brown. New Mexico, Arizona. 
G. citronella B. & WcD. (49 h). Forewing lemon-coloured with black transverse lines which are citronclla. 
more or less divided into dots. Hindwing greyish-brown. California. 
25. Genus: ^cogrotclLa B.u.Benj. 
Like Grotella, but the centra] appendage in the ring-wall of the frons is beak-shaped, not obliquely 
truncate. 
Type: N. spauldingi B. <£■ McD. 
N. confusa B. & Benj. (49 h). Forewing yellowish-white, black dots arranged exactly as in G. parvi- confusa. 
puncta, but very diminutive or extinct. Hindwing greyish-brown with contrasting yellowish-white fringes. 
A larger species from Colorado. 
N. spauldingi B. <£• McD. (49 h) has ’yellowish-white foi’ewings with brownish-black transverse lines spauldingi. 
being mostly broken up into rows of dots. Hindwing smoky brown. LTtah. 
N. mcduntlGUghi B. & Benj. (49 h). Ground-colour very variable, yellowish-white, olive, or blackish- mcdunn- 
grey, with blackish transverse lines of the same course as in spauldingi, besides with an undulating line which ought. 
mostly is shadow-like, in two points, but which may also be absent like the transverse lines; a reniform macula 
is occasionally represented by a small light spot; fringes speckled light or darker. Hindwing smoky brown 
or blackish. A smaller species from California. 
26. Genus: (daiitliy]i<lia Btlr. 
This genus is also mentioned as Heliothis or Melicleptria and its only American representative is an insect 
distributed in nearly all the parts of the world excepting Australia. It differs structurally from Grotella chiefly 
only in the plain rounded frontal projection with a horny plate below it. 
