8-4 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new 



Genus Erebus. 

 Erebus variegata. 



Nyctipao variegata, S , Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xiv. p. 432 

 (1887) ; Hampson (part.), Phal. xii. p. 296, pi. 206. fig. 6. J (1913). 



Hub. Solomons. 



N. caliginosa, Butler, 7. c. p. 433, which Hampson makes 

 the female of variegata, is a distinct species; it is not the 

 female of variegata. I have the true female of variegata, 

 also from the Solomons (from Shorthand Island) ; it is very 

 similar to the male, has more white suffusion in the wings, 

 and is much larger. 



Erebus ephesphoris. 



Phalcena noctua crepuscularis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 99, pi. 160. fig. A 



(1779) (nee Linn.). 

 Nyctipao ephesphoris, Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. 272, 2675 (1827). 

 Nyctipao ephesphoris, Walker, xiv. 1305 (1858). 

 Nyctipao leucotcenia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 184 (1852) ; Hampson, Phal. 



'xii. p. 298, pi. 207. figs. 7 rf, 8 $ (1913). 



Ilab. Amboina. 



I have one male and three females from Amboina which 

 are undoubtedly identical with leucotamia and with Hamp- 

 son's excellent figures. The type came from Amboina. 



Erebus saparcea, nov. 



? . Chocolate-brown, tinged with ochreous : fore wing 

 with indications of a subbasal band ; a rather broad sinuous 

 antemedial brown band from costa to hinder margin, followed 

 by a similar band a little before the middle, outwardly edged 

 with greyish ochreous from the hinder margin to the whorl- 

 shaped discoidal mark, which is very large ; its black ring 

 strongly outwardly edged with white, which thickens on the 

 costa and has a billhook-shaped large centre rilled in with 

 brownish ochreous, ringed with deep black, and edged in- 

 wardly and outwardly with white; a brown thin even discal 

 band with a slight outward curve from the costa to the outer 

 margin, followed by a pale and more ochreous space ; the 

 other third of the wing as dark as its basal portion ; a large 

 subcostal white spot before the apex, oval and excavated on 

 its outer side, a small white lunule immediately below it, 

 followed by five white lunular marks inwardly edged with 

 black clown the disk — the first minute, the fourth well out- 

 wards, the row ending in an outwardly-curved white line 

 close to the hinder margin ; cilia brown with white spots at 



