122 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Trigonodes, Guen. 

 The number of species made out by Guenee is extraordinary, 

 seeing how little the much divided T. hijppasia varies : — 



Trigonodes hyppasia. 

 Phalana hypjMsia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 3, p. ccl, E. (1782). 

 Ophiusa anfractuosa, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. 



p. 104, n. 8, pi. 15, fig. 6 (1833). 

 Trigonodes acutata, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 283, n. 1728 (1852). 

 T. inacutata, Guenee, I.e., p. 284, n. 1729 (1852). 

 T. exportata, Guenee, I.e., n. 1730 (1852). 

 T. compar, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1451, n. 9 (1857). 

 Chalciope mahura, Felder, Eeise der Nov. Lep. iv. pi. cxvii. 



fig. 13. 

 C. deltifera, Felder, /. e., fig. 24. 

 Asia, Africa, and Australia. In Col. B. M. 

 It is absolutely impossible to distinguish any of the above 

 supposed species when one possesses a good series of specimens, 



Trigonodes cepliise. 



(? Phalcsna cepliise, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 3, p. 59, pi. ccxxvii., 

 fig. c (1782). 



? Trigonodes maxima, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 282, n. 1723 

 (1852). 



^ N. India, ? E. India, S , 2 Moulmein and Fiji. In Coll. 

 B. M. 



Though apparently very dissimilar, if the sexes of this 

 species are carefully compared on both surfaces, it will be seen 

 that the actual differences are unimportant, and only such as 

 one often finds in the Lepidoptera as distinctive markings 

 between the sexes. It must, however, be insisted on that males 

 and females from the same locality be compared ; since, in 

 widely distant localities, I find the colouring of the under 

 surface somewhat modified, our Fijian specimens being redder 

 below than those of India. 



Trigonodes lucasii is unknown to me, but hardly seems (from 

 the description) to belong to this genus. 



My Euclidia consors must sink as a synonym of Lederer's 

 E. dentata, from which it only differs in the slightly wider 

 blackish submarginal band on the secondaries. When I described 

 the Japanese insect, E. dentata was not in our collection, but 

 Zeller's series includes a specimen from Siberia. 



I agree with Felder in the opinion that Drasteria is nearly 

 allied to Euclidia (Grote places both genera in the Catocalinpe, 

 but I cannot follow him, for they seem to me much better placed 

 near Remigia, placed by him in his Toxocampinas). As already 

 noted, Toxocampa does not belong to the Quadrifidfie, and there- 

 fore can have nothing in common with Remigia and allies, 



