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course, wildly incorrect, since Toxocampa belongs to the Trifidffi 

 of Guenee. . There is nothing whatever in P. metaspila to distin- 

 guish it from Pantydia: Toxocampa atriplaga, Walk., from Natal, 

 must be referred to the same genus. 



Walker's Poaphila ingenua (=PJwheria atomaris, Hiibn.) and 

 P. porrifiens {= hasigutta, = Ujssia orthosioides, Guen.) from the 

 United States, which somewhat resemble P. metaspila, are species 

 of Ophisma allied to the European 0. lunaris, Schiff. 



Ophyx, Guen. 

 Opthyx ochroptera. 

 Ophyx ochroptera, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 234, n. 1644 (1852). 

 Ophisma resignans,Wa\ker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1385, n. 36 (1857). 

 Moreton Bay. In Coll. B. M. 



Celipteea, Guen. 

 Celiptera frustulum. 



Celiptera frustulum, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 308, n. 1767 (1852). 



Litomitus elongatiis, Grote (see Check-List, p. 41, n. 1260). 



Remiqia discissa, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, p. 1009 (1865). 



United States. In Coll. B. M. 



In my opinion, Guenee's genus Nymhis cannot be very distant 

 from Celiptera, and I fail to see how to distinguish it generically 

 from Phurys ; on the other hand, Phurys helvina, Guen., is a 

 Celiptera, whilst Nymhis iniqiia goes better with Phurys. The 

 three genera are, I believe, only separable by pattern, for the 

 relative lengths of the palpal joints will not separate them. In 

 N. iniqua the third joint of the palpi in the male is as long as 

 the second, and therefore does not bear out Guenee's character, 

 "le troisieme article moitie moius long que le second," which is 

 only true of the female. Of course, Phurys arcuata, Walk., 

 cannot be generically distinguished from Nymbis textilis, so far 

 as can be judged from the figure of the latter species. I have 

 therefore placed it, for the present, under that generic heading. 



Celiptera optahilis. 

 Phurys optahilis, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1485, n. 14 (1857). 

 Poaphila hasilinea, Walker, Char. Het. Lep. p. 54, n. 91 (1869). 

 Honduras, Limas, Espiritu Sancto. Types in B. M. 

 This species is very suggestive oi Nymhis textilis, but the arched 

 second pale stripe, bounding the dark external area, is wanting. 



Celiptera helvina. 

 Phurys helvina, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 307, n. 1765 (1852). 

 P. lineolaris, Walker (not Hiibner), Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1483 



n. 9 (1857). 

 Honduras and Bogota. In Coll. B. M. 



Phurys glans, Grote, would stand better^under this genus 

 near C. frustulum. 



