THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 69 



TWO MORE OF WALKER S '' BOMBYCIDS. 



Col. Chas. Svvinhoe, of Oxford, has very kindly employed an 

 artist to draw figures of Heterocampa t/iyatiroides, Wlk., and Cingilia 

 humeralis, Wlk., for me. The latter is a synonym of Caterva catenatia. 

 Cram., though I presume that the genus Cingilia (Trans. Ent. Soc, 

 Lend. (3), i., 76, 1862,) antedates Caterva (new check list, 1882,), and 

 this geometrid must be called Cingilia caienaria. It stands in the 

 Liparidse in Kirby's catalogue. The other name antedates its synonyms, 

 and we have : — 

 Dasvlophia thyatiroides. Walker. 



1862 — Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., (3), i., 79. 

 interna., Packard. 



1864 — Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., iii., 363. 

 tripartita. Walker. 



1865 — Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxii., 419. 

 signata, Walker. 



1865 — Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxiii., 758. 



THREE NEW WEST AFRICAN MOTHS. 



BY GEORGE A. EHRMANN, PITTSBURGH, PA. 



Syntoinis hilda, n. sp. 



^ . — Antennae, head and thorax black ; first and fifth segments of the 

 abdomen white, the rest metallic green ; primaries dark brown with three 

 ovate vitreous spots on the sub-apical area ; discal space has two large 

 triangular vitreous spots, the largest being near the inner margin. 



Secondaries dark brown, with two small elongate vitreous spots near 

 the base and one small round spot of the same colour in the discoidal 

 area. Underside the brown is a little lighter than above, otherwise it is 

 the same. 



^ . — Similar to the male, except that the antennae are tipped with 

 buff, and the fifth segment of the abdomen is not white, thus leaving the 

 whole abdomen metallic green except the first segment, which is white on 

 the upperside ; thi vitreous spots in the wings are the same as in the 

 male, but much larger. 



Underside same as above, except that there is a large white spot on 

 each side of the thorax, and the first two segments of the abdomen are 

 creamy white; legs in both sexes are dark shining brown. Exp. of^J , 14 

 mm. ; 9 , 16 mm. 



One male and three females in my collection, l^his lovely species 

 was first taken by Mrs. Hilda Nasmyth at Cape Palmas, Liberia, West 

 Africa, and I esteem it an honour to name it after her. 



