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VIII. Heterocerous Lepidoptera collected in Chili by 

 Thomas Edmonds, Esq. By Arthur G. Butler, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read AprU 5th, 1882.] 



Part II.— NOCTUITES. 



Mr. Edmonds obtained forty-five species of Noctuites, 

 many of them being represented by fairly long series, so 

 that it is possible to judge with some measure of 

 certainty as to how far the species are liable to vary : in 

 a few instances I have been obliged to consider as distinct, 

 forms which Mr. Edmonds evidently only regarded as 

 varieties, but it would be indeed remarkable if the 

 collector should be always correct in his views as to 

 the extent of variability in each species. 



It is a singular fact that since Walker's time no species 

 of the present tribe have been described from Chili ; the 

 nearest approach to descriptions of Chilian Noctuites 

 being found in Berg's ' Patagonische Lepidopteren 

 beobachtet auf eine Reise im Jahre 1874 ' (Bull. Mosc, 

 1875), and in a short paper by myself on the Lepidoptera 

 obtained at the Straits of Magellan by Dr. Coppinger, of 

 H.M.S. 'Alert' (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1881); but none of 

 the new species described in these two papers are iden- 

 tical with any of those obtained by Mr. Edmonds. 



The following is an account of the species : — 



LEUCANIID^. 



Leucania, Ochs. 



1. Leucania impuncta. 



Leucania impuncta, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 83, n. 117 



(1852). 

 Var. Leucania decolorata, Blanchard, in Gay's ' Chili,' 



vii., p. 81, n. 1 ; pi. 4, fig. 9 (1854). 

 Evidently a very common species : the figure by 

 Blanchard does not give the faintest idea of the species, 

 trans, ent. soc. 1882. — part ii. (july.) q 



