412 . HETEROCERA. 
HEMEROPLANIS. 
Hemeroplanis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259 (1816). 
Mandela, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. pp. 181, 192. 
Mandela was founded by its author upon a single species, M. crocea, from Bogota. 
This is nearly allied to Hemeroplanis pyraloides, Hiibn., and cannot, I think, be 
separated generically from it. Walker’s types are now in my own collection. 
1. Hemeroplanis pyraloides. 
Hemeroplanis pyraloides, Hibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259. 
Hemeroplanis pyralis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. i. p. 28, ff. 127, 128°. 
Heliothis pyralis, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 687 *. 
Thermesia aurora, Walk. Cat. xxxili. p. 1039 °*. 
Pleonectyptera pyralis, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 41 (1882) *. 
Hab. NortH America‘, Georgia!?, Florida! ?.—Mexico, Dos Arroyos 1000 feet, 
Chilpancingo 4600 feet, Tierra Colorada 2000 feet, all in Guerrero, Cuernavaca, Atoyac 
in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica, 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—AntILLEs, San Domingo °. 
This is a very common and exceedingly variable insect in Mexico and Guatemala. 
Some specimens agree exactly with Hiibner’s figure, while others are a pale straw- 
colour, with only the faintest indication of the dark margins to the wings, these 
extremes being connected by intermediate forms. The females are generally darker 
than the males. 
| GIGIA. 
Gigia, Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 941 (1865) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 48. 
Walker founded this genus upon a worn specimen from an unknown locality ; subse- 
quently Mr. Butler identified an insect from the Amazons with it, and we have now to 
record its occurrence from within our southern limits. 
1. Gigia obliqua. 
Gigia obliqua, Walk. Cat. xxxiii. p. 942 ; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 48°. 
Brotis (?) stenogaster, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Nov., Lep. t. 119. f.5, Erkl. der Taf. 119. no.5(¢)’. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger) —Gutana2; Amazons 1, 
. Two specimens in Dr. Staudinger’s collection are all we have seen from Central 
America. 
| MASSALA. 
Massala, Walker, Cat. xxxiil. p. 977 (1865). 
A single species, from Jamaica, was included in Massala by Walker ; this, according 
to Mr. Butler, being identical with the previously-described Azeta quassa of the same 
author. The typical. species is now known to inhabit Central America, whence one 
— other is here described. 
