528 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Geometridm of 



BUZURA ABRUPTARIA. 



Boarmia dbrwptaria. Walker, Proc. N. H. See Glasg., 1 (ii), 

 p. 37 (1869). ' 



1 ^, Congo (type). 1 ^, Old Calabar. 



Genus Xylopteryx, Guen., Phal., i, p. 215 (1857). 



Xylopteryx protearia. 



Xylopteryx protearia, Guen., 1. c, pi. 4, f. 8. 

 Scotosia lucidiscata, Walker, xxvi, 1724 (1862). 

 Scotojjterix interposita, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 526 (1902). 



2 ^, 2 $, Masai, E. Quaso, Brit. E. Africa. 1 $, Nairowa, 

 Brit. E. Africa. 1 ? , Eb Urru, Brit. E. Africa. 1 ^, 

 Kikuyu, Brit. E. Africa. 1 ^,2 ?, mile 478, Uganda 

 Railway. 



Walker's type is from S. Africa in this Museum; Guenee's 

 type also came from S. Africa. Warren's type from the 

 Escarpment is in coll. Rothschild. 



In Nov. Zool., X, p. 275, Warren says his versicolor is the 

 same as protearia ; there is some mistake here, he was 

 probably writing from memory; interposita is undoubtedly 

 the same ; versicolor and its aberrations are so much larger, 

 they can hardly be put in the same form. 



Xylopteryx albimaculata. 



Scotopteo'ix albimaculata, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 525 (1902). 



5 ^, 1 ? , mile 478, Uganda Railway, Brit. E. Africa. 

 1 $ , mile 469, Ndimu, Uganda Railway, Brit. E. Africa. 

 1 ^, 3 ?, E. Quaso, Masai, Uganda Railway. 



Warren's type, a female from the Escarpment, is in coll. 

 Rothschild ; it is an extreme form with the white spot at 

 apex and the other in the middle of outer margin very 

 white and prominent ; in some examples these spots are 

 nearly obsolete, and in others there is a large whitish patch 

 in the middle of the wing. 



Xylopteryx versicolor. 



Scotopterix versicolor, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 526 (1902), 

 and X, p. 275 (1908). 

 ab. alMmcdia, Warr., 1. c, ix, p. 526. 

 ab. figurata, Warr., 1. c. 



