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XXXII. — On the Geographical Distribution of the Genus 

 Anoiiiis, lliibner (Lineopalpa attctoruin), a Nootuid of the 

 Family GonopteriJae. By Colonel C. SwiNiiOE, M.A., 

 F.L.S., &c. 



[Plates IX.-XII.] 



'J'his paper is in continuation of my paper on the geograpliical 

 distribution of the subojenus Coamophila, a section of tlie 

 genus Anoniis. 



In ' Moths of India/ vol. ii. p. 409 (1894), Hampson puts 

 involula, \Va\kev = basal is, Walker = co///(/a<a, Walker, all 

 three from Ceylon, and propinqua, Butler, from Aden, as 

 synnnyins to subitlifera, Guenee, from Abyssinia. 



He puts ynetaxautha, Walker (type without locality), com- 

 hinans, 'MV'A\k>^v^gxittanervis, Walker, both types from Cey- 

 lon ; commoda, Butler, from Japan, privala, Walker, from 

 Shanghai, revocans. Walker, from Moreton Bay, Au'^tralia, 

 vulpina, Butler, from Venna Levu, Figi Isl., iuducens, 

 Walker, from Java, simidatrix, Walker, from Sierra Loono, 

 albitibia, Walker •=nigritarsis, Walker, from Ceylon, all 

 under fulvida, Guenee, locality erroneously stated to be 

 N. America. 



Seitz, in his ' Palearctic Noctuids,' 1914, pp. 359, 360, 

 puts /H/w'c?a into the genus Runcada, Walker, and puts under 

 it comlinanSj induceus, nigritarsis, revocans, privata, and 

 commodny and describes two subspecies — subfulvida and 

 gri.ieoline ita — fiom China and Japan, unknown to me. 



Guenee's habitat for fulvida is N. America, but this is 

 evidently an error; it is a common Eastern form ; Walker's 

 type of metaxantha has no locality — this is also a common 

 Indian form. 



Sir George Hampson has pointed out to me that Hubner's 

 genus Anomis, type exacta, from America, is congeneric with 

 Guenee's genus Lineop<dpa', Anovtis was erected in 1827 

 and Guenee's in 1852, tlierefore the former has precedence. 



I am very much indebted to the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, 

 the well-known genitalia expert, for the great care and trouble 

 he has taken in the dissection and examination of numerous 

 examples of Anomis I have sent him from many localities, 

 and tlje notes that follow are all entirely due to him. 



The differences in the genitalia of some of the forms 

 from widely se]>arated localities is generally very great, but 

 in some casus it is slight, as, for instance, between sabuhfera 



