140 THE ENTOMOLOGIsT. 
The subjoined list of twenty-four species will show at a glance 
some of the insects commonly to be taken in March and April; 
and there are many others at this season, I have no doubt, which 
I either missed or was not fortunate enough to encounter :— 
Papilio podalirius, P. machaon, Pieris brassicae, P. rape, P. napi, 
Thecla rubi, Lycena argiolus, Huchloé cardamines, Leucophasia 
duponcheli, Gonepteryx rhamni, G. cleopatra, Vanessa atalanta, 
V. egea, V. c-album, V. cardui, V. polychloros, V. io, Nemeobius 
lucina, Pararge egeria, P. megera, Argynnis selene, A. euphrosyne, 
A. dia, Caenonympha (Chortobwus) pamphilus. 
Oxhey Grove, Harrow- Weald, May 4, 1892. 
NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 
By Arruur G. Butter, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c. 
(Continued from p. 93.) 
The genus Ariola, Walk., contains very heterogeneous mate- 
rial: thus the type A. calisigna appears to me to be a Lithositd ; 
but of this 1 am at present uncertain, though the neuration 
seems to me to point rather to that family than any other. A. 
dilectissma and ‘* Acontia”’ dicycla belong to Pachylepis, Feld., 
and are undoubtedly Glottulide; A. pulchra, Butl., is a Micro- 
Lepidopteron probably allied to Davendra; A. continua and 
dejlexa, Walk., from Borneo, are sexes, and belong to the Deltoid 
genus Lazandra = Labanda, Walk.; and A. saturata is a Para- 
crama, and belongs to the Nycteolide. A. includens is, at present, 
unknown to me. 
Thalpochares mundula, Zell., appears to.be a Deltoid allied to 
Riwula. 
I followed Lederer, Staudinger, Walker, and others, in placing 
Argyrospila (and consequently Micardia) in the Leucanude. An 
examination of the wing-veins proves clearly that both Argyro- 
spila and Micardia are Acontiide: in general aspect they are 
more like Eublemmide. 
Anthophila indecisa, Walk., appears to belong to the Hypo- 
grammide, in Walker’s sense of the family; the neuration 
corresponds: the specimen is rubbed and faded almost beyond 
recognition, which accounts for its specific name. 
A. divergens, Walk., and A. erecta = Atethmia inusta = A. 
subusta = Laphygma trilinea = Anomis dispartita = Poaphila 
congesta are Heliothide of the genus Lygranthecta, which is 
consequently synonymous with Atethmia, Hubn. 
Dyrzela cara, Butl., from Japan, is a Cosmia nearest to C. 
difinis, L.: the type of Dyrzela belongs neither to the Acontiide 
nor Eublemmide, but will come much later in the arrangement. 
