628 Colonel C. Swiiihoc on 



NycModcs qifjantaria, Stand., Iris, x, p, 48, pi. 1, f. 32 



(1897). 

 AnticyiKlla giganfaria, Mcyrick, 1. c. 



Type, Central China in B. M. 



Type (gigantaria), Amur in coll. Staudingcr. 



Staudingcr wrote the description of his species in 1891 

 and ])rinted the name in his lists, but his paper was not 

 published until late in 1897. 



Parathemis canescaria. 



Boarmia canescaria, Guen., Piial., i, 249, 380 (1857). 

 Parathemis irrorata, Warr., Nov. Zool., v, p. 2.50 (1898). 

 Parathemis violescens, Warr., 1. c. 



Guenee's type came from New Holland. 



Types (irrorata $ and violescens $ %), Dawson, Queens- 

 land, in coll. Rothschild. 



It is also from Queensland in the B. M. ; the species 

 is variable, irrorata and viuJcsccns are merely ordinary 

 varietal forms. 



DULIOPHYLE MAJUSCULARIA. 



Boarmia mainsculavia, Leech, Ann. Mag., N. H. (6), xix, 



p. 420 (1897). 

 Dulio'phyle agitata ah dilute, Warr., Nov. Zool., vii, p. 113 



(1900). 



Type, Japan in B. M. 



Type {diluta $), Japan in coll. Rothschild. 



PrOTEOSTRENIA OCCULTA. 



Proteostrenia lida ah occulta, Warr., Nov. Zool., viii, p. 200 

 (1901). 



Type $ , Nippon in coll. Rothschild. 



I believe this to be a good form aiul not an aberration ; 

 it is not in the B. M. 



Laophila FOKIA, nov. 



^ 5 . Dark grey, densely irrorated witli iniiiute lirown atoms, 

 colour uniforni ; wings with a black dot at the enil of each cell and 

 dark grey transverse lines, all more or less slightly sinuous and 

 slightly curving outward ; fore-winps with the 1st at one-fourth, 2nd 

 in the middle, well curved round the cell dot, this line runs across 



