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Family CAKADRmiD.E. 



Genus ILATTIA, Walker. 

 ILATTIA OCTO, Gqenee. 

 Perigea octo, GuenI^.e, Noct., I, p. 233 (1852). 



There is one specimen, from Providence Island, of this wretched little 

 creature, which has been located in no less than nine diftereut genera 

 by systematists, and described under fourteen different uaraes. It is 

 knowu to Xorth American students as Chytoryza tecta, Grote. For 

 full synonymy, the student is referred to the excellent i)aper by my 

 honored friend, Dr. Butler, of the British Museum.' 



Family PLUSIID..^. 



Genus PLUSIA, Ochsenheiiner. 



PLUSIA CHALCYTES, Esper. 



Noctua chalcytes, Esper, Schuuitt., IV, p. 447, pi. cxi.i, i\g. 3 (1789). 

 There are two specimens from Mahe which 1 refer to this species, and 

 which seem to differ from specimens from the south of Europe in my 

 collection, only by being somewhat paler upon the under side of the 

 wings, and destitute of any trace of the fuscous shade which, in the 

 specimens I refer to, is found at the end of the cell and on the outer 

 margins of the wings. 



Family OMMATOPHORID.E. 



Genus CYLIGRAMMA, Boisduval. 

 CYLIGRAMMA LATONA (Cramer). 



riuihvua latona, Cramer, Pap. Exot., I, 20, iil. xiii, fig. B. 

 One specimen from Gloriosa Islan(^. 



Family OPHITJSID.E. 



Genus GRAMMODES, Guenee. 



GRAMMODES STOLIDA (Fabricius). 



Noctua stolkla, Fabricus, Ent. Syst., p. 599. 

 Three examples, all from Platte Island. 



Family 1 )YSGONIID.E. 



Genus SPHINGOMORPH A, Guenee. 



SPHINGOMORPHA CHLOREA (Cramer). 



rhahvna noctua chlorea, Cramer, Pap. Exot., II, p. 12, pi. civ, fig. C (1779). 



Two specimens from Gloriosa. 



'Proc. Entom. Soc. London, XXXVIII, p. 690. 



