NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 193 



Var. Ophiusa tumidilinea, Walker, I. c, p. 1433, n. 32 (1857). 

 Africa and India. In Coll. B. M. 



O. hopei, Boisduval, from Madagascar, if distinct, must be a 

 very closely allied species to the above. 



Ophiodes selenaris. 

 Ophiodes selenaris, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 232, n. 1640 (1852). 

 Ophiusa'^ ohhcerens, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1830 (1858). 

 South Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



Ophiodes finifascia. 

 Nephelodes finifascia, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1676 (1858). 

 Anna amplior, Walker, I.e., p. 1789 (1858). 

 Ophiusa dilecta, Walker, I. c, Suppl. 3, p. 967 (1865). 

 South and West Africa. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Ophiodes tirhaca. 

 Phalcena tirhaca, Cramer, Pap.Exot. ii. pi. clxxii., fig. k (1779). 

 Noctua tyrrhcm, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 213, n. 19. 

 N. vesta, Esper, Eur. Schmett. iv. pi. cxli., fig. 1. 

 Ophiodes hottentota, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 229, n. 1635 (1852). 

 0. separans. Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1357, n. 9 (1857). 

 Europe, Asia, South Africa, Madagascar. In Coll. B. M. 

 Fabricius' blunder in quoting Cramer's name has been 

 copied with slight variations up to the present time. The 

 absurdity of separating the sports of this species under different 

 names is evident directly that one obtains a good series of 

 sjDecimens. 



Ophiodes klugii. 

 Ophiusa klugii, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. 103, 

 n. 5 ; Maillard, Notes sur I'lle de la Reunion, pi. xxiii., 

 fig. 1 (as Ophisma klugii). 

 Ophisma rividaris, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 407, 



n. 82, note (December, 1875). 

 Western Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



Lagoptera, Guen. 

 Lagoptera juno. 

 Noctua juno, Dalman, Anal. Entom. p. 52, n. 29 (1823). 

 Ophiusa elegans. Van der Hoeven, Lep. Nov. pi. 5, figs. Qa, h. 

 Lagoptera multicolor, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 226, n. 1631. 

 Japan, China, and India. In Coll. B. M 



(To be continued.) 



