NOTKS ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUTD MOTHS. 241 



Asia and Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



To readily trace the modification of one variety of this species 

 into another, it should be arranged thus : — *S'. cuculloides, stih- 

 ohliqua, huineralis, conturhata, variabilis, conjiuens, signifera. It 

 is quite possible that D. colnmba may be another variety of the 

 female ; but as I have not hitherto seen links to connect it with 

 the above series, I prefer, for the present, to regard it as possibly 

 distinct. Mr. Hampson tells me that Minica nigrilinca, Walk., 

 is a synonym of S. sHbohliqua (and therefore of D. cuciiUoides). 



Grammodes, Guen. 

 Grammodcs geomctrica. 

 Noctua fjeometrica, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 599, n. 37 (1775). 

 Phalfemi aminoyiia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 3, p. 98, pi, 250, D. 



(1782). 

 Noctua bifasciata, Petagna, Ins. p. 197 (1787). 

 N. chalciptera, Borkhausen, Eur. Schmett. 4, p. 771, n. 850. 

 N. parallelaria, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 66, fig. 324. 

 A^ linearis, Hiibner, Beitr. 2, pi. 4, T. 

 Grammodes conqenita, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1443, n. 7 



(1857). ^ 

 Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia. In B. M. 

 Considering how this unfortunate species has been burdened 

 with names, it is remarkable how little it varies, the chief 

 differences consisting in the width of the transverse white bands; 

 if these differences were locally constant, they might have some 

 value, but they are not. The Fabrician type evidently had the 

 lower portion of the outer band suffused with brown, as in an 

 Indian example in our series. 



Syneda, Guen. 

 Syneda grcmdirena. 

 Phytometra grandirena, Haworth, Lep. Brit. p. 264. 

 Aulia limbolaris, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. Zutr. p. 23, n. 345, 



figs. 689, 690. 

 United States. In Coll. B. M. 

 Walker placed this species both under Syneda and Grammodes. 



Syneda graphica. 



Drasteria graphica, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. Zutr. figs. 11, 12. 



Euclidia capiticola, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv p. 1461, n. 7 (1857). 



United States. In Coll. B. M. 



Several of the Californian species appear to me to run so close 

 that, when they come to be bred, I fully expect they will prove to 

 be no more than varieties of one another. 



(To be continued.) 



