282 Mr. Warren on the Pyralidina collected 



is from Mexico. There are also three more — one male, 

 two females — unnamed in the same collection from 

 Espiritu Santo. 



Var. castanealis. 



Wings deep fulvous-brown, the lines and markings 

 indistinctly darker; head, thorax, and abdomen con- 

 colorous; the last segment with a large blackish anal 

 tuft and two smaller lateral ones. In size, shape, and 

 markings exactly like Pnenesta scyllalis, of which I take 

 it to be a brown suffused variety. Snellen's figures of 

 P.fabialis and P. sinualis would then represent inter- 

 mediate forms. 



One 3^ . R. Javary, Dec. 4th, 1874. 



90. Acharana phaopteralis. 



Botys phaopteralis, Gn., Delt. & Pyr., 349, 409. 



Acharana phceopteraUs, Moore, CeyL, iii., p. 285. 



? Botys siriusalis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xviii., 

 p. 563. 



? B. dicealis, Wlk., ib. 



B. vestalis, Wlk , ib., p. 579. 



? B. plebejalis, Ld., W. E. M., vii., 373, 469, pi. 10, 

 fig. 8. 



B. grisealis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1875, xviii., p. 198, 

 pi. 11, f. 8. 



Nine specimens. One ? from Manaos, Jan. 6th ; one 

 ,? from k. Tapajos, March 16th; one <? from R. Manhes, 

 May 1st ; two females from R. Madeira, May 16th ; two 

 females from Ilha das Araras, June 3rd ; one ? from 

 Gaviao, on R. Jurua, Nov. 10th, 1874 ; and one <? from 

 Santarem, R. Jutahi, Feb. 4th, 1875. 



Of B. phaopteralis Guenee says, "Common through- 

 out Central America " (Walker erroneously translates it 

 Southern); Walker'sresic/iis were from Jamaica. Lederer, 

 in the W. E. M , vii., p. 373, puts forward B. plebejalis, 

 but at p. 469 withdraws it, as being only a dark form of 

 B. phceopteraUs, which he states occurs also in the East 

 Indies, " probably introduced there by ships." Mr. 

 Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 230, would 

 make B. licarsisalis, Wlk., from Borneo, a synonym of 

 B. phcBopteralis, Gn. ; but it seems to me that Mr. Moore, 

 in his ' Ceylon,' vol. iii., p. 285, is right in considering 



