270 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION. 



Gloriosa, Poivre I., and Platte I. are really pulchelloides, and those from Aldabra are 

 probably TJ. lactea aldabrensis. 



Distribution. — 0. and S. Europe; throughout mainland of Africa and Asia ; Mauritius 

 Sokotra ; Seychelles ; Ceylon ; Nicobars ; Java ; New Guinea, Port Moresby ; 

 N.S.Wales; Tasmania; Fiji. 



4. Utetheisa elata, Fb. 



Noctua elata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. p. 440. 



Utetheisa venusta, Hiibn., Ziitr. iii. p. 29, ff. 521, 522 ; Hampson, Moths Ind. ii. p. 55. 



Euchelia formosa, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 85. 



Deiopeia diva, Mabille, Aim. S. E. France, 1879, p. 305. 



Uiet/ieisa elata, Hampson, Cat. Phal. iii. p. 480, f. 215. 



Seychelles. — Three specimens of type elata from Mahe (de Gaye) ; the typical form 

 is only found at Barbarous, on the west side of Mahe at about 200 feet elevation. 

 Seven examples of ab. diva, Mab., all from Cascade Estate, Mah^, on various dates 

 between 18 September and 1 December, 1905 ; the moth appears to be very local and 

 occurs at about 1000 feet elevation on the edge of the ancient forest. 



Larvae were found at Cascade Estate on 2 November, 1905, feeding on the leaves of 

 Tournefortia sarmentosa, Lam., but owing to our departure from the Seychelles and 

 consequent inability to obtain a fresh supply of the food-plant, I was unable to breed 

 out the moth. The larva is shown on Plate 17. fig. 17. 



Distribution. — (Form elata) Mauritius; Madagascar ; Johanna I. ; Seychelles (Mahe). 

 (Form diva) Seychelles (Mahe). 



Family NoctllidSB. 



5. Chloridea armigera, Hb. 



HeliotJiis armigera, Hiibn., Noct. t. 79. f. 370 ; Boisd. Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 98. 

 Chloridea armigera, Hampson, Cat. Phal. iv. p. 45, f. 18. 



Coetivy. — Two specimens. Fairly common in September. 



Soutb Providence. — One example reared (21 October, 1905) from larva found on 

 " Bois balais " {Erythroxylon sp.). These larvte were cannibalistic ; I collected four 

 or five, but this solitary survivor devoured all the others. 



Distribution.-— T^a-^as ; California ; Mexico ; Guatemala ; Jamaica ; Barbados ; St. 

 Vincent (W. I.); Venezuela; Brazil; Peru; Chile; Argentina; Cape Verde Is.; 

 S.Europe; Madeira; Canaries; throughout Africa to Syria and Aden; St. Helena ; 

 Rodriguez; Beunion ; Mauritius; Madagascar; S. Providence ; Coetivy ; throughout 

 India ; Ceylon ; Singapore ; Java ; China ; Formosa ; Japan ; throughout Australia ; 

 Tasmania ; New Zealand ; Gilbert Is. ; Sandwich Is. 



6. Cirpliis leucosticha, Hmpsn. 

 Cirphis leucostictia, Hampson, Cat. Phal. v. p. 541 (1905). 

 Leucania insulicola, Saalm. (nee Gueu.), Lep. Madag. p. 254, f. 181 (1891). 



Seychelles. — A single worn female from Praslin, November 1905. 



