June, 1S96.] GrOTE : NoTE ON AgRONOMA AND LaSPEVRIA. 85 places in the daytime have generally gray or blackish, protectively col-ored primaries, of such neutral tints as to deceive the eye in passing rap-idly over an extended surface. But in Apatela the direction of the mimicry, the object copied, differs in the larva and moth of the same species. The independent direction of the larval efforts in this respect is important evidence in sustaining the view that in metamorphosis the stages acquire characters useless to the succeeding, and that here the larva oi Apatela has attained an independent perfection as regards ulti-mate peculiarities of adaptive structure applicable only to the conditions of its own particular stage. CORRECTION OF THE TYPE OF AGRONOMA AND NOTE ON LASPEYRIA. By A. Radcliffe Grote, A. M. It has been recently stated by Mr. John B. Smith that the type of Agronoma, given by me in the Bremen List, May, 1895, p. 23, viz: vesiigia/is, does not correspond in structure with jaculifera, the type of Feliia, inasmuch as the front is not roughened or tuberculate and the front pair of tibite are not heavily armed. Still my reference of Feltia to Agronoma will hold. The material examined by me in Bremen in 1893-4, when writing the list, is no longer accessible to me and I am not sure what species I examined. But Hiibner's genus Agronoma con-tains, beside vesfigia/i's, both crassa and exclamationis. I have ex-amined here, in the Roemer Museum, specimen of crassa. The fore tibiae are heavily armed, the front is roughened or tuberculate, the male antennje are pectinate. It is therefore a Feltia. Inasmuch as vestigi-alis is referred as belonging to Agrotis in a restricted sense, and as congeneric with the type segetum, as established by me and adopted by me in the "Revision," it follows that the type of Agronoma must be changed and crassa, the first species cited, is then the type. Hiibner establishes Agronoma for species having the general aspect o^ Jaculifera ; the claviform is usually suffused with a darker color. Proba-bly the European species exclamationis, corticea, obesa, graslini and fatidica belong to Agronoma and share the structure of crassa. The name of our common North American species will then remain, as claimed by me in the list : Agrotis (^Agronoma') jaculifera Gn. Those using my Bremen List will please make the correction and I am much
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