222 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



basal yellow patch on each elytron, reachmg from the 1st stria 

 to the 4th, and extending to the median part of the elytra. 

 Pygidium triangular and very convex, and deeply punctured. 

 Under side black, shining; legs somewhat reddish ; tarsi fuscous. 

 Long. Corp. 9 mm., lat. 4|- mm. 



Hah. Beaufort, West, Cape Colony. 



Biplagiatiis, Thoms. 



Head and thorax brilliant green bronze. Elytra of a 

 yellowish testaceous, with a large common lateral black spot. 

 Ventral surface and tarsi of a very brilliant dark brown bronze. 

 Head rounded and raised on the anterior extremity, rather 

 thickly punctured. Two blackish parallel carina are situated on 

 the anterior extremity, between the eyes. Prothorax pubescent, 

 very strongly punctured, feebler on the disc. Elytra pubescent, 

 regularly striated. Long. corp. 5 mm., lat. 3 mm. 



Hah. Gabon, Afr. 



Oxford, 1895. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 



By Arthub G. Butlek, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 125.) 



Remigia megas. 



Reniigia megas, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 317, n. 1776 (1852). 



R. marcida, Guenee, I.e., n. 1777 (1852). 



Phurys perlata, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1489, n. 3 (1857). 



Remigia remanens, Walker, I. c, p. 1498, n. 8 (1857). 



R. hexastyliis, Harvey (see Grote's Check-List, p. 41, n. 1277). 



North America to West Indies. In Coll. B. M. 



C^NURGIA, Walk. 

 Litosea, Grote. 

 Canurgia convalescens. 

 Drasteria convalescens, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 289, n. 1734, 



pi. 22, fig. 9 (1852). 

 Ccenurgia socors, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1492, n. 1 (1857). 

 C. purgata, Walker, I. c, n. 2 (1857). 

 New York, E. Florida, and Canada. In Coll. B. M. 



Canurgia togataria. 



Anaitis ? togataria, Walker, Lep. Het. xxv. p. 1445, n. 12 (1862). 



Litosea adversa, Grote (see Check-List, p. 39, n. 1108). 



Mexico and California. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Euclidia runica, Felder, belongs to this genus, and I am 

 inclined to think that Euclidia intercalaria, Grote (of which, 

 however, I only know the female), should also be placed here. 



