668 Mr. A. G. Butler's /»r^//rr iwies on the 



Walker identified two normal specimens from the Cape 

 as "L. cydoides," but redescribed typical L. cydoidcs 

 (which agrees with L. fiavimacidata in being a little 

 larger than most European examples) as L. caradri- 

 noides. 



'2. Laphygma orbicularis. 

 Caradrina orbicularis, Walker, Lep. Het., x., p. 294, 



n. 26 (1856). 

 C. praterita, Walker, L c, n. 27 (1856). 

 South Africa. Coll. B. M. 



3. Laphygma macra. 



Laphi/qma macra, Guenee, Noct., i. p. 157, n. 251 



(1852). 

 L. / inepta, Walker, Lep. Het., ix., p. 190, n. 6 (1856). 



North and South America. Coll. B. M. 



4. Laphygma cilium. 



Spodoptera cilium, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 156, n. 249 



(1852). 

 S. insulsa, Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl., 2, p. 648 (1865), 



Java. Coll. B. M. 



''Spodoptera " erica, Butl., belongs to the same genus. 



EuLAPHYGMA, gen. nov. 

 Differs in the ciliated antennae of the male. 



Eidaphygma abyssinia. 

 Spodoptera abyssinia, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 154, n. 244 



(1852). 

 S. capicola, Herrich-Schaffer, Lep. Exot., fig. 131 



(1854). 

 Caradrina insignata, Walker, Lep. Het., x., p. 295, 



n. 29 (1856). 

 Laphygma procedcns, Walker, Lep. Het., xi., p. 721 



(1857). 

 South and West Africa. Coll. B. M. 

 I have no doubt that this wide-ranging species is the 

 S. abyasinia of Guenee : it is astonishing that, when 

 making three genera, this author failed to see how to 



