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Galliniwplm leiivnia Boisd., in Kii'by's Cat. under Eplsteme HI)., is most 

 probalily ii (Teonietiid. 



Easemia siriella Driice, Kirliv's Oxt. \i. '28, is a Geometrid according to the 

 type-specimen. 



The genera Hecatesld Boisd. (Kirby'.s Cdt. p. 12j, Diaiiinud Wlk. (Lep. Het. 

 B. M. XII. p. 960), cutis Wlk. {I.e. p. 9G1), and Aacida Wlk. (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Land. (3). I. p. 253) are Agaristids. 



Listonia javiaicensis ]M6.-ichler, Ahh. Senl\ Kat. Ges. XW. p. 37. f. 13 (18'J1). 

 is perhaps also an Agaristid. 



Duga Wlk., in Kirby's Cat. amongst the Agaristidae, p. 898, contains in the 

 Catalogue two species, pinguis and semire ; B. pinguis Wlk. is a Geometrid, 

 D. zeriiire (StoU) a Pyralid. Swinhoe's Duga, rana, Cat. Lep. O.rf. I. yi. 96. t. 3. f. 3 

 (1891), is not a Litho.sid, as Swinhoe says, but a Geometrid. 



Phaegcn-ista pallida Druce, Kirby's Cat. p. 417, is the same as Sarotkroceras 

 (nee Sarothrncera White, 1845) (diuaudi Mah., according to ^Mabilie's figure and the 

 tx])^ of ptdlida. Druce gave as habitat " Ogowai, East Central Africa,'' perhaps (?) 

 a mistake for Ogowe R., West Africa. The name of pallida has the priority over 

 that of alluaudi. I agree with Karsch that this insect is not an Agaristid, though 

 vein 5 of the hindwings comes from the centre of the discocellulars. 



Fhalaena Bombyx mummia Cramer, Pap. E.v. III. p. 61. t. 228. f. ('(1782) 

 (Surinam) is an Agaristid, and comes into the genus Pycnodontis Feld., not into Are 

 Wlk., Lep. Het. B. M. III. p. 758 (1855), where it is placed by Walker with a " ? ". 



In pattern of the forewings many Agaristidae agree perfectly well with the 

 Noctuidae. A most obvious and rather widely distributed character amongst the 

 Agaristids is the occurrence of metallic bluish scales on the foi"ewings above, which 

 often form conspicuous patches, especially one in the cell beyond the middle and 

 another upon the discocellular veinlets. Eed, yellow, and white markings on a black 

 ground are prevalent in this family, and it appears to me that there is rather commonly 

 a variation of the colour within the same species from white to yellow, and from yellow 

 to red. This variability has not yet been noticed, except in the genus Episteme Hb. 

 by Hampson, Moths of India, and so a good number of colour-varieties stand still in 

 Kirby's Catalogue as species. In Eusemia longipalpis Kirsch the S has the band 

 of the forewings and the patch on the hindwings white; of the female sex of this 

 .species there occur three forms, one similar to the male, a second with the patch to 

 the hindwings orange, and a third with both the patch to the hindwings and the 

 band on the forewings orange ; intergradations prove that these forms belong to one 

 species. Eusemia longipalpis and some other Agaristidae, as well as Milionia 

 glauca (StoU), apparently confirm Eimer's opinion that the new colour develops from 

 the posterior side. The white-marked Aegocera trimeni Feld. and the orange- 

 coloured A. tricolor Druce are not only identical in the outline and position of the 

 markings, but there occur also specimens of trimeui with the hindwings obviously 

 tinged with orange, and e.xamples of tricolor which are much paler than others. 

 There are two specimens of a Mitophrys Karsch from Sierra Leone in the Triug 

 Museum, one marked with orange, the other with white. We find no other difference 

 between the specimens besides that disjiarity in colour, and are convinced that the 

 two specimens are the same species; they agree fairly well witli Mitophrys halaiis 

 Karsch, Eat. Xachr. p. 354. t. 2. f. 7 (1895), and M. agoma Karsch, I.e., respectively. 



Among the numerous species (?) of Xanthospilopteryx Wall, similar cases of 

 dichromism can be observed. The hindwings of A', pardaiina (Wlk.) are yellow 



