NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 225 



A. hyperythra "only differs in the two black patches on the 

 lower wings, if the figure of Cramer is exact," as if it were not 

 patent to anyone who examines Cramer's figures, that they are 

 little more than rough maps of the species which they represent ; 

 besides, the absence or presence of black patches (even if they 

 were not grease spots) would not constitute Cramer's insect a 

 distinct species, but only a different individual. 



Hjipcnaria suhcelata, Walker, and the nWied A rgidia aganippe, 

 Felder, come near to A. toniyris, but are altogether greyer above 

 and yellower below ; both are represented in the Museum collection 

 by female examples. On the upper surface the resemblance of 

 A. aganippe to suhvelata is considerable, but the under surface 

 separates them at once. 



Argidia tardion. 

 2 Pliahena tarchon, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 2, p. 65, pi. 139, c 



(1779). 

 Azirista mtracta, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1639, n. 1 (1858). 

 ^ Argidia subruhra, Felder, Keise der Nov. Lep. 4, pi. cxviii. 



fig. 28. 

 Santarem and Eio Purus. In B. M. 



I believe it is this species which Cramer re-figures as 

 P. wedelina (pi. 397, m.) ; it is certainly not the species repre- 

 sented by Felder, which is a badly coloured, though well drawn, 

 figure oi A. suhuclata, Walk. 



Argidia sujfasa. 

 Thermesia suffusa, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1561, n. 2 (1858). 

 T. tinctifera,^\Yalkei', I.e., p. 1570, n. 18 (1858). 

 St. Domingo and Honduras. Types in Coll. B. M. 



AzAziA, Walk. 

 This genus differs from Thermesia in the shorter third joint 

 of the palpi. 



Azazia rahricans. 

 Ophiusa ruhricans, Boisduval, Faune Ent. Madag. p. 106, 



n. 11, pi. 16, fig. 1 (1833). 

 Thermesia transdacta, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, p. 1058 



(1865). 

 Asia, Africa, and Pacific Islands. In Coll. B. M. 



Thekmesia, Hiibn. 

 Thermesia gemmatalis. 



Thermesia gemmatalis, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. Zutr. figs. 



153, 154. 

 T. monstratura, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1564, n. 7 (1858). 

 T. costalis, Walker, I.e., p. 1570, n. 17 (1858). 



