120 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



APAMEID.E. 



Apamea, Ochs. 



10. Apamea glottuloides, U.S. 



Primaries above black-brown, with bronzy reflections ; 

 internal area mottled and irrorated with pale clay-brown, 

 showing indications of the two ordinary lines, which are 

 slender, black, and dentate- sinuate ; an interrupted, 

 abbreviated, black, longitudinal, basal, interno-median 

 line ; ordinary discoidal spots indistinct, outlined in 

 white dots with very slender black outer edge, the reni- 

 form in the female marked more distinctly with a white 

 L-shaped character ; costal margin spotted with whitish 

 beyond the middle ; a submarginal series of white dots, 

 and a marginal series of small black spots ; fringe smoky 

 brown, traversed by a black line ; secondaries pearly 

 white, with bronze-brown external border and veins ; 

 fringe silvery white, with a sordid basal line, bounded 

 externally by a greyish line ; thorax blackish ; antennae, 

 palpi, and legs flesh-coloured, but the antennae sometimes 

 white towards the base ; abdomen grey ; primaries below 

 shining greyish brown, with whitish internal border and 

 dark grey fringe ; secondaries pearly white ; the costal 

 area and external margin irrorated with blackish, and 

 with a slight brown reflection ; a spot at the end of the 

 cell, and a discal series of dots upon the veins, black ; 

 tips of veins also black ; body below pale brown ; the 

 pectus clothed with tufts of blackish hair. Expanse of 

 wings, 39 — 41 mm. 



Valparaiso. 



" Taken at light, and on flowers from January to 

 March."— T. E. 



This species is coloured much like a Glottula. 



MiANA, Steph. 



11. Miana photophila, n. s. 



Primaries above sericeous greyish brown ; costal bor- 

 der crossed by short black dashes ; the central belt con- 

 stricted below the cell, varied with dark brown, enclosing 

 the usual spots, and bounded by the ordinary lines, which 

 are black; "orbicular" spot quadrate, reddish, with 

 white or grey border and black margin, frequently (in 



