240 THE KNTOMOLOGIST. 



Castle, Co. Sligo ; Mote Park, Roscommon {cjnsea) ; and at 

 Dursey I., off Co. Kerry Var. imhuUs, as already given. 



Hydrcecia micacea, Esp. — Very abundant everywhea-e, vary- 

 ing much in colour and size. In Donegal, Mr. Hart took a series 

 averaging 1 in. 2 lines in expanse, a size which I have met with 

 occasionally elsewhere, as at Howth, where the ab. hriinnea 

 occurs, which probably Mr. Dunlop mistook for H. petasitis. 

 Mr. Tutt's vars. liitea and grisea also are taken with the type in 

 various localities. 



AxYLiA PUTKLS, L. — Widely spread, but somewhat local, and 

 occasionally numerous. Derry, ab. (C) ; Armagh (J.) ; Favour 

 Royal, Tyrone; Drumreaske, Monaghan, scarce; Killynon 

 {Miss li.) and Cvomiyn [Mrs. B.), Co. Westmeath; Greystones, 

 Go. Wicklow, ab. ; abundant at Clonbrook {K. E. D.) and 

 Kenryle, Co. Galway ; Markree, and near Sligo {Rms), pretty 

 abundant. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 



By Arthuh G. Butler, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 217.) 



Dandaca, Walker. 

 Steiria and Minica, Walk. 

 This genus consists of a few extremely variable species, 

 identitiable most readily by the markings of the under surface of 

 the wings ; it is difficult to find two examples in which the pattern 

 of the upper surface corresponds. The males have the autennai 

 finely and weakly ciliated, a slightly longer and more robust 

 thorax than the females, and the frenulum and retinaculum 

 slightly stronger. 



Dandaca cuculloides. 

 S Stictoptera cuculloides, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 52, n. 1883 



(lb52). 

 $ Steiria subohliqua, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 113G, n. 1 



(1857). 

 S S. sujnifera, Walker, I. c, n. 2 (1857). 

 $ Minica conjiuens, Walker, I.e., p. 1140, n, 1 (1857). 

 ? Steiria hunieralis, Walker, Jouru. Linn. Soc vii. p. 174. 

 ? Briarda conturhata. Walker, Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 



18G9, p. 354. 

 ^ , ? Steiria variabilis, Moore, Descript. Ind. Lep. Atk. 2, 

 p. 1G4 (1882). 



