2<S Mr. Butlel's Rl'risli>ll af thr ilrnil.^ ^jiIIosuikK 



base, along niediau nervure, tu near centre of lower di.scoiJal 

 interspace ; secondaries creamy whitish ; wings below creamy 

 white, yellowish along costa ; pectus and venter stramineous : 

 expanse of wings 1 inch, 5 lines. 

 West Africa. B.M. 



Genus AlpH/EA. Walker. 



Alpltiea falvoliirta. 



Alpluea fuhjo/iirta, Walker, Lep. Het. ;5, ]). 684, n. 1, (1855). 

 Darjeeling. B.M. 



Alplicn. Cfiria of Walker appears to me to be referable to the 

 genus Ardices: 



Genus Aruices. Walker. 



Ardlces fulroli Irta. 



^ , ^. AriUeex fiilchirfn $ , Walker, Lep. Het. 3, p. 710, n. 

 1, (1855). 



^. Spilosorna roiiferta, Walker, 1. c. supp. 1, p. 295, (1864). 

 Tasmania. B.M. 



Ardlces .^aboceliata. 



^. Siiilosoiita .siil>ar('ll((tai/i, Walker, Lep. Het. 7, p. 1697, 

 (1856). 



^,^. Ardlces fal colt Irta, ^ , Walker, Lep. Hot. 3, ]). 71U, 

 n. 1, (1855). 



Tasmania, S. Australia, W . Australia, Kangaroo Island. B.M. 



The tyi)ical form of this species is less heavily marked than the 

 bulk of the examples formerly placed as females of A. fnlvohlrta, 

 but it is clearly only a case of variation : as indicated by Walker, 

 this species chietiy ditfers from the preceding in its scarlet abdo- 

 men, femora, and lateral margin of collar. 



Ardicea divlsa. 



Arctia divlsa, Walker, Le}). Het. 3, p. 614, n. 39, (1855). 

 Himalayas. B.M. 



This species was retained in Arctia, l\v Mr. Moore, i)roljably 

 on account of a tendency which it exhibits to f<jllow the pattern 



