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fairly common at the higher elevations ; K. pmnnr var, pitho, just 

 emerging at Campiglio ; E. act/iiojts, fairly common ; E. lit/ra 

 (Zurich), two specimens ; E. ruri/alf, abundant in S. Tyrol ; Onir-is 

 acllo, fairly common at Pejo and Campiglio ; Sati/nis herminnc, fairly 

 common ; ^'. ciirc, not common ; S. seiiielc, abundant; iS'. actaea, one 

 specimen only; Pararf/c )iiacra, abundant; P. iinyacra, fairly 

 common; P. ('t/cria, not common; P. achine, abundant at Mendel; 

 Epineplu'U' lujiu'vanthus., a few specimens ; E. janira, abundant ; 

 E. h/ranii and E. titlunms, inivly common; Coennniiiuplin jiaiiiphiliis, 

 abundant; ('. airania, common; var. (lanriuiana, one specimen; 

 Sjiihit/ii/nis althaea, abundant ; Si/richtlnis carthaiiii and S. alreiis 

 abundant; N. nndrac, S'. sao and XisiDiiadrs tanct^, a few only; 

 T/n/niclicus t/ian,iiias, Patupliila si/lrauHs, J', (■(niiiini, abundant; Cartcni- 

 ci'pJialu!^ IKilai'iiion, two specimens at Pejo. In all 115 species. 



On the Affinities of Demas coryli. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 Whether Demas coryVi is a Noctuid or a Lymantriid (Liparid) 

 has become a burning question, owing to the directly opposed views 

 held, as to facts observed, by Dr. Chapman and Mr. Harrison G. 

 Dyar. In the Journal of the New Yorl- Entom. Societ//, vol. iii., 

 pp. 130 — 181, Mr. Dyar writes : — " Professor E. B. Poulton has 

 shoAvn that dorsal eversible glands are of general occurrence through- 

 out the larvce of the Lymantriidae {Tranx. Ent, Soc. Land., 1887, 

 p. 300) on the tenth and eleventh joints, or rarely on the eleventh 

 joint [Dasychira pndibunda). Probably these structures are charac- 

 teristic of the family, but Prof. Poulton did not find them in Demas. 

 This genus has been considered to belong to the Xoctnidae, but 

 English authors assume it to be a Lymantriid. Mr. J. W. Tutt 

 remarks, in speaking of Prof. J. 13. Smith's recent " Catalogue of the 

 Noctuidae " {E)'tom. Bccord, etc., vi., p. 70) : — " The obsolete 

 position of Demas among the Noctuidae is retained. Now is this 

 position ' obsolete ' '? The absence of the retractile tubercles cer- 

 tainly throAvs doubt on the matter. Now I have shown a charac- 

 teristic difterence in the arrangement of the thoracic tubercles between 

 the Lymantriidae and Noctuidae (^Trans. New York Acad. Set., xiv., 

 p. 57), and Demas shoAvs the Noctuid strixcture. Therefore, in all 

 essential larval characters, Demas is a Noctuid. It might, indeed, be 

 an Arctian, as far as the larva goes, but not a Lymantriid. As con- 

 cerning the structure of the imago, Demas seems to have greater 

 affinity with the Noctuidae than any other family. In fact, it appears 

 to me that the placing of Demas among the Lymantriidae may pro- 

 perly be characterised as premature." Further, Mr. Dyar writes : — 

 " The pupa is shining dark brown, with a large wrinkled cremaster, 

 and three movable incisions. Of the usual Noctuid appearance (quite 

 unlike Orgyia), and passing the winter." This statement about the 

 pupa wants careful comparison with Dr. Chapman's remarks thereon, 

 which are quoted below. Now, we would call Mr. Dyar's attention 

 to the following statements, made by Dr. Chapman. He writes :■ — ■ 

 " We now come to two species, Demas coryli and Diloha caerzileo- 

 cephala, that are certainly not very much related to each other, and 

 though they have some indications of affinity with Acronycta, are 



