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Oligobiella ruLiGiNEA (Buch. White). 



Picescenti-nigra, nitidula ; antennis paUide et sordide aJUdo- 



flaventihus, articulo secundo hasi mediociue picescenti, tertio ipsa hasi 



picea, quarto hasi excepta ferrugineo ; femorihus piceis vel piceo-nigris, 



apice eorum, tibiis tarsisque alhido-flaventihus, tihiis anticis grisescenti- 



husfere unicolorihus, muticis, posteriorilus maculis apiceque fuscescenti- 



bus, sat tenuiter nigro-spiimlosis, t arsis articulo ultimo fuscescente. 



Long., $ , li m7n. 



MyrmedoUa fuligiiiea, Bucli. White, Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, 

 1878, p. 466, 9, sec. spec. typ. 



Patria: Insula Sancta Helena. 

 Abo : December 18th, 188 i. 



On the Synovymy of some Pyralidina. — The three following descriptions of 

 Pyralidina, published by Zeller in his "Lepidoptera Microptera Caffrarise" (1852), 

 seem to have been hitherto unidentified : from a careful consideration of them I 

 believe the subjoined identifications to be almost certainly correct : all are common 

 and wide-ranging insects, occurring (without perceptible local variation) not only in 

 the South African region, but also through Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago to the 

 South Pacific Islands. 



1. Uurrhyparodes hracteolalis, Z., Micr. Caffr., 30; accessalis, Walk., Brit. 

 Mus. Cat., 405 ; stihialis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1880, 216, ibid., 1883, PI. viii, 8. In 

 my notes on the Classification of Australian Pyralidina (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1884), I have erroneously referred this description of Zeller's to the following species. 



2. Molyhdantha tricoloralis, Z., Micr. Caffr., 31 ; plumbalis, Grn., 231 ; abnega- 

 talis, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 404, Ld. Pyr., PL xi, 17. 



3. Sameodes cancellalis, Z., Micr. Caffr., 34; 2)ipleisalis,'Wa\k„^rit. Mus. Cat., 

 420 ; lepidalis, ibid., 465 ; sidealis, ibid., 937 ; meridionalis, ibid., Suppl., 1314 ; \ 

 trithyr alis, Sr\e\l., Tijd. v. Ent., 1880, 218, ibid., 1883, PI. viii, 4 ; vespertinalisA 

 Saalm., Ber. Scnck. Gres., 1880, 301. In the case of this epecies, although Zellei j 

 included it in Botys, he has accurately pointed out the structural characters on whicti y 

 the genus Sameodes is now established. ;| 



Lederer refers (conjecturally) to the first two of these descriptions undo 4 

 Diasemia, and to the third under Cacographis. — E. Meteick, Sydney, N.S.W. / 

 Nov. Idth, 1884. |i 



Reported occurrence of Danais Archippus at Ventnor. — A little time ago i jq 

 newspaper boy told me that he had caught a butterfly which he did not know as h.\i 

 does not collect. A few days ago I saw it and found it to be a good specimen ciu 

 Danais Archippus. I bought it from him, and showed it to Major Owen who live!! I 

 here. He thinks it is a genuine English one, for if the boy knew it was rare, hi' 

 would have asked a higher price. He caught it on September 12th, on the Re If. 

 Valerian not far from Major Owen's house. — Dudley Westeopp, St. Maur, Yentno j 

 I. of Wight : Dec. 29th, 1884. 



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