92 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Hiibner himself annihilated Trothisa by founding Hublemmas 
Porphyrinia and Hromene before it. Hublemma contains two 
species, — H. suava, which is a Microthysa, and EH. amena = 
respersa, Which becomes the type; the latter is congeneric with 
Trothisa paula, so that Hublemma stands for the bulk of Lederer’s 
Thalpocharides. Hiven if Hublemma, Porphyrinia, Eromene and 
Trothisa had all been superseded, there would still remain 
Ecthetis, Hiibn., with the sole species (and therefore type) HE. 
pura, which must have taken priority over Lederer’s genus 
Thalpochares. 
If it be asserted that some of Hutbner’s genera contain 
heterogeneous material, and therefore that his names should be 
ignored, I reply that Lederer’s are in the same plight; even 
Thalpochares itself contains several structurally distinct groups 
having entirely different facies. I cannot admit the confusion 
of such well-marked groups as Microphysa, Hublemma, Calymma, 
Glaphyra, &e. 
Acantholipes, Led., is synonymous with Docela, Walk., which 
it supersedes. 
Thalpochares innocens, Butl., is apparently a Deltoid allied to 
Mestleta; the somewhat longer palpi indicate this. 
Herr Saalmiiller, in his ‘ Lepidoptera von Madagascar,’ has 
described three species as belonging to Anthophila, which, in 
their neuration, are shown to be species of T'arache, viz., A. 
divisa (Taf. xi. f. 284), A. scapha (f. 236), and A. armilla (f. 288), 
which have a very well-defined accessory cell to the primaries — 
a character which, as my friend Mr. Hampson has proved to 
me, is entirely wanting in the Hublemmide. The singular thing 
is that Saalmuller, when describing Anthophila, observes that 
the species, which have a very different character from one 
another, are principally distinguished by the want of the accessory 
cell and approximated arrangement of veins; either he did not 
use a sufficiently powerful lens, or his sight must have been 
defective, since the accessory cell in these species is unusually 
large. 
In the male of Anchiroe flavofimbria, Saalm., which has 
entirely yellow secondaries, I can find nothing in the neuration 
to justify its separation from Tarache ; the character of the veins 
of the secondaries is perfectly normal, the second and third 
median branches being emitted as usual from a well-defined 
footstalk ; that of the primaries is equally so, the accessory cell 
being long and well marked, differing in no respect from that of 
the other Madagascar species referred to above: the slight 
differences of pattern in the sexes are such as one expects to find 
in species of Tarache. 
Erastria elegans, Saalm., is a Bryophila : the tufted body and 
trifid median neuration of secondaries would alone separate it 
from Hrastria ; the drawing of the veins in his figure 1s incorrect. 
E. muscosa, Saalm., is also a Bryophila. 
