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Drasteria, Hifhn. 

 This genus is very nearly allied to Remigia ; it, however, 

 has less slender and compressed palpi. The typical species, 

 D. erechtea, is widely distributed and very variable, so that it 

 could hardly escape being described several times over. 



Drasteria erechtea. 



(? Phal(eua erechtea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 3, p. 149, pi. cclxxv., 

 E (1782). 



? Drasteria eriehto, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 290, n. 1736 (1852). 



Microphysa sobria, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 835, n. 6 (1857). 



Poaphila ijatihilis, Walker, I.e., xiv. p. 1471, n. 11 (1857). 



P. narrata, Walker, I. c, p. 1474, n. 17 (1857). 



3- Remiqia hiqircssa, Butler & Druce, Cist. Ent. v. p. 117 

 (1872) ; Butler, Lep. Exot. pi. Ixi. fig. 19 (1874). 



Canada, United States generally, and Costa Eica. In Coll. 

 B. M. 



Most of the specimens recorded by Walker had no labels of 

 any kind upon them ; in fact, the following were the only speci- 

 mens bearing localities of those placed under D. erechtea : — Two 

 from Trenton Falls, two from Nova Scotia, and two labelled 

 *' N. Y." All the others Walker must have guessed at, since 

 they had never been ticketed with either register-number or 

 locality, and consequently were so much useless lumber. As it 

 is, we now have an immense series of specimens with localities. 



Eemigia, Giieii. 

 In spite of the fact that this genus and Drasteria were placed 

 in different families by M. Guenee, they are so closely allied that 

 I consider their distinctness doubtful. 



Remigia archesia. 

 ? Phalana archesia, Cramei', Pap. Exot. 3, pi. cclxxiii. figs. 



F, G (1782). 

 S' P. virhia, Cramer, I.e., fig. h (1782). 

 ? Remiqia mayeri, Boisduval, Faune, Ent. de Madag. p. 104 



(1833). 

 3 R.pellita, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 19, n. 1780 (1852). 

 ? R. gregalis, Guenee, I. c, p. 320, n. 1782 (1852). 

 R. miituata, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1505, n. 15 (1857). 

 R.jagalis, Walker, I.e., n. 16 (1857). 



3 llypiEtra diffundens. Walker, /. c, Suppl. 3, p. 963 (1865). 

 ? Remigia associata, Walker, I.e., p. 10] (1865,'. 

 R. inconcisa, Walker, I. c, p. 1013 (1865). 

 3 R. hifasciata. Walker, I.e., p. 1014 (1865). 

 Asia and Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



R. demonstrans, Walk., from the Navigators' Islands, and 

 R. discrejMns, Butl., from Fiji, are local forms, both differing 



