synonymy of the <jenem of Noctuites. 669 



separate them correctly. All the species of Laphygma 

 are so much alike that, unless examined with a lens 

 in detail, they might be taken for one species ; yet 

 Guenee placed L. cilium and E. abyssinia into his genus 

 Spodoptera, the species of which are far more like those 

 of P rode nia. 



CARADRINA, Ochs. 

 1. Caradrina extima. 

 Caradrina extima, Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl., 2. p. 687 



(1865). 

 C. fidicidaria, Morrison (see Grote, Check List, p. 30, 



n. 650). 



Vancouver, California. Coll. B M. 

 Specimens of this species in the Grote series are 

 labelled as " Caradrina multifera," Walk. 



2. Caradrina quadripunctata. 

 Noctua quadripunctata, Fabricius, Sp. Ins., ii., p. 214, 



n. 25. 

 Caradrina pulverosa, Walker, Lep. Het., x., p. 295, 



n. 28 (1856). 

 Europe and S. Africa. Coll. B. M. 



3. Caradrina selini. 



Caradrina selini, Boisduval, Ind. Meth., p. 137, n. 1096 . 



Europe. Coll. B. M. 



Staudinger, in his Catalogue, p. Ill, queries C. nocti- 

 vaga as a variety of C. selini, and places C. infusca under 

 it as a scarcely distinguishable slightly paler variety of 

 C. noctivaga. In the Zeller collection I found the 

 ordinary female of C. selini, which sex is always darker 

 than the male, labelled as C. infusca : it is quite likely, 

 therefore, that C. noctivaga and infusca are only ordinary 

 females of C. selini, the sex having been not looked into. 



4. Caradrina himaleyica. 

 Caradrina himaleyica, Kollar, Hiigel's Kashmir, 4, 



p. 479 (1842). 



C. arenacea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1881, p. 349. 

 Dharmsala. Coll. B. M. 



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