668 Mr. A. G. Butler 's further notes on the 



Walker identified two normal specimens from the Cape 

 as " L. cycloides," but redescribed typical L. cycloides 

 (which agrees with L. flavimaculata in being a little 

 larger than most European examples) as L. caradri- 

 noides. 



2. Laphygma orbicularis. 

 Caradrina orbicular i*i 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. 



Laphygma 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 antennas of the male. 



Eulaphygma 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 procedens, 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. abyssinia of Guenee : it is astonishing that, when 

 making three genera, this author failed to see how to 



