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NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 

 By Aktiiuk G. Butlkk, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 193.) 



Platyja, Iliibner. 

 Cutuza and Gintea, Walk. 



Platyja ummitiia. 

 ? PJiakeiia umniinia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 137, pi. cclxvii. 



fig. F. 

 Sijmpis snhnnita, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 344, n. 1810 (1852). 

 c? Cotnza drqxinoides, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1552, n. 1 



(1858). 

 ? Gimea rcmorcns, Walker, I.e., p. 1638, n. 1 (1858). 

 Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Penang, Moulmein, Hong-Kong, 

 N. India, and Cape York. In Coll. B. M. 



CALPID.E. 



The proper position for this family is, I have no doubt, 

 between the so-called Ophideridte (though the genus Ophidercs 

 falls as a synonym of Utlircis, Hiibn.), which will have to be 

 called Othreidpe, and the Plusiidte. 



GoNODONTA, Iliihncr. 

 Gonodonta iiicurca. 

 Phahena incurra, Sepp. Surin. Vlind. ii. p. 201, pi. 89 ('? 1850). 

 Guiwdonta tcrctuiiacida, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 367, n. 1211 



(1S52). 

 Gonodonta tonperata, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 957, n. 26 (1857). 

 Gonodonta velata, Walker, I.e., n. 27 (1857)- 

 Venezuela, Guadeloupe, Ega. In Coll. B. M. 

 A slightly variable and widely distributed species. 



PLUSIID.E. 

 Pliisia signata. 



Noctaasiynata, Eabricius, Ent. Syst.iii. 2, p. 81, n. 234 (1793). 



Pliisia diuiinuta, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 837 (1865). 



Java, Fiji, and Sierra Leone. In Coll. B. M. 



Although there is no '?-shaped marking on the primaries, as 

 mentioned by Eabricius, but two markings, o r, as in P. uigriliina 

 and other allied forms, it appears to be the only species in which 

 the three black sub-basal spots mentioned by the describer of 

 P. signata are present ; as a matter of fact, whenever the note 

 of interrogation is present in the species of Pliisia it is without 

 its terminal dot and lies on its back, being followed by a spot of 

 silver or gold thus — <>. : for a trivial name, the " hook-and-eye 



