592 PIIAL.ENOIDID.E. 



21S. Seirocastuia praefecta, insert :— 



nervalis, Strand, Lep. Cat. v. p. 39 (1912), for ab. 2. 



Page 000. Genus MELANCHROIOPSIS. 



1 ype. 



Phasis, Wlk. ii. 312 (1854), nee Hiibn. Verz. p. 73 (1827) noctilux. 



Melanchroiopsis, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. liv. p. 311 (1918)... acrdleuca. 



*222rt. Melanchroiopsis acroleuca. (Plate LXXI. fig. 13.) 



Melanchroiopsis acroleuca, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. liv. p. 341 (1918). 



3 . Head orange, the antenna' black, the palpi with black patch 

 at side of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint black ; thorax and abdomen 

 black glossed with blue, the teguke orange at tips, the anal tuft 

 orange ; pectus deep orange. Fore wing black, the veins and sub- 

 median fold streaked with silvery blue-grey, the cell with a silvery 

 blue-grey streak, forking towards its extremity ; a rather small 

 white apical patch ; cilia silvery grey. Hind wing black glossed 

 with blue especially on the veins ; cilia white. Underside black 

 glossed with blue ; fore wing with the apical white patch as above. 



Hub. Mexico, Sierra del Guerrero (Muller), in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 50 millim. 



221. Longicella mollis, insert : — ■ 



decipiens ab. catamelas, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xi. Ind.-Austr. ii. p. 20 



(1912). 



The greater part of fore wing and the hind wing except inner 

 area black. 



Nias, Hili Madjedja [Kannegieter), type t 6 in Coll Rothschild. 



225. Longicella luctifera. 



Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlviii. p. 199. 



Velvety black with transverse white lines ; some long white hairs 

 from dorsal area ; claspers and head orange. Food-plant, ? Coleus 

 hi color. 



List of Unrecognised Species. 



CTielonomorpha formosana, Miyake, Annot. Zool. Jap. \i. 2. p. 7!) 



( PJU7) '. Born* isa . 



Noctuafelicia, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 5s, pi. xii. t 11 (1791), 



the type of genus Trissophaes, Hiibn. Verz, p. 263 



( L827). ': biitmana Surinam. 



Tuerta ruspini, Auriv. Arkiv f. Zool. v. 5. p. '.), fig. 43 (1909), 



1 vpe in Brussels Museum, r Veymeria Congo. 



COEBIGENDA. 



Page 473. Dionychoput, Kerr.-SchafE. (1856) type lactinea is a 

 synonym of Amsacta, Wlk. ; the genus will stand as Munychia, 

 Wllgrn. 



