48 Mr. A. G. Butler «?^ the 



GiGIA, Walker. 



75. Gigia obliqua. 



Gigia ohliqua. Walker, Lep. Het. Siippl. iii. p. 

 942 (1865). 



Brotis (?) stenognster, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. 

 iv. pi. 119, fig. 5. 

 TJttary, Rio Purus, 25th September, 1874. 



Walker's type is a rather worn specimen Avithout a 

 locality. 



Blosyris, Hubner. 



76. Blosyris despecta. 



Brujas despecta. Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1819 

 (1858). 

 Abacaxis River, 10th May, 1874. 



The fairly perfect example taken by Dr. Trail proves 

 this species to be a Blosyris allied to B. abadirina; it 

 may be the PhalcBna-Noctua scolopacea of Cramer (pi. 

 174, C). 



77. Brujas helima. 



Phalana (^Noctna) helima, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. 

 p. 40, ph 309, fig. D (1782). 

 Manaos, 22nd December, 1874. 



Walker is v^^rong in referring this species to Blosyris ; 

 it is allied to Brujas posterior from Jamaica.* I am 

 certain that no specimen ever was (as Cramer asserts) 

 taken at Sierra Leone. 



Letis, Hubner. 



78. Letis occidiia. 



^ . Pha.l(B7ia-Bomhyx occidua, Linnfeus, Syst. Nat 

 p. 812, n. 14 ; Clerck's Icones, pi. 54, figs. 1, 2. 



$ . PhalcBua-Noctua corisandra, Cramer, Pap. 

 Exot. iv. p. 189, pi. 384, figs. A, B (1782). 

 Para, 6th March, 1875. 



This species seems to be rare ; we previously only 

 possessed a much-injured example without locality. 



* A nearly allied species, B. reyu/ns, from St. D^imingo, is identical 

 with Letts intracta. Letis incipu'ns (the species which succeeds it in 

 the Catalogue) is identical with Xylis (' Homoptera ') usti])ennii. 



