Annotated Catalogue with Illustrations of Ménétriés' Types of Ctenuchina and Euchromiina (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) Deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

The types of Ctenuchina and Euchromiina that were described by E. Menetries, deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, are catalogued. All but one of the types are of names described from Brazil and collected during the Langsdorff expedition; the only non-Brazilian type was collected in California, USA. Lectotypes are designated for the following names: Laemocharis fasciatella, Charidea fastuosa, L. fulviventris, L. metallescens, L. ornata, Glaucopis rubroscapus, G. vidua vidua and G. vidua spiracula. The following new combinations are proposed: Poecilosoma fasciatella, stat. rev., Aethria ornata, and Xanthyda metallescens. Comments on each name are provided, as well as information on their current taxonomic status, illustrations of type specimens, and information about their conservation status.