I'lie faaailiaii Jntomoloiiist 



VOL. XXIV. LONDON, JUNE, 1892. No. 6. 



SYNONYMIC AL NOTES ON SOME HETEROCERA IN THE 



BRITISH MUSEUM. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



During the latter part of September, and early ii 

 spent two weeks in London, and most of the tirna^fSdi^BAiDi^G 

 rooms of the British Musemn. My aim was, J^'l^ily,-ttrT^Tn;ify 

 noctuids described by Walker, and in this I s\ 

 porating the notes there made being now in the 

 large is the material in this magnificent collection, 

 for only a very hasty glance at other families of the Heterbcera. and on 

 a few species only I made brief notes. So far as they are synonymic 

 they are here given. 

 Alypia crescens, Wlk. 



1856— Wlk., Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., Het. vii., 1774. 



This is the same as Alypia grotei, Bdv., Lep. Cal, 1868, 70. Walker's 

 name has priority. I have not the reference to Herrich-Schaeffer's 

 Agarista bimaadata, which Mr. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i, 31, 

 doubtfully refers here. Mr. Stretch in 1876, Wheeler's Rept. v., 802, 

 gives biviaciilata, H.-Sch., as the species, and cites grotei as a synonym 

 of it. Alypiodes flavilinguis, Grt., Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. viii., is another 

 synonym, fide Mr. Henry Edwards in Papilio iv., 13. The genus 

 Alypiodes is probably a good one, and it is also probable that Herrich- 

 Scha?ffer's name will be found to ante-date Walker's, so that the species 

 will probably remain as given by me in the recent List. 



Eudryas Stce /ohafinis, Wlk. 



1856 — Wlk., Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., Het. ix., 144. 



The type is marked " Taken on the church door at Horsley Downs." 

 There is nothing in the specimen or record to authorize the reference of 

 this species as North American, and yet this is probably correct. The 

 insect is like gi-ata, with slightly suffused primaries and deeper yellow 

 immaculate secondaries. It is probable that in some \vay the pupa of 



