synonymy of the genera of Noctuites. 675 



3. Euplexia sepultrix. 



Mamestra sepultrix, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 200, n. 317 



(1852). 



Hadena expulsa, Guenee, 1. c., 2, p. 93, n. 800 (1852). 

 Euplexia emergens, Walker, Lep. Het., xi., p. 544, n. 2 



(1857). 



E. indocilis (part), Walker, Lc., p. 545, n. 5 (1857). 

 Hadena lutra, Walker, I. c., p. 598, n. 93 (1857). 



Tasmania and Victoria. Coll. B. M. 



This species varies a little, and much in the same 

 manner as the preceding species, with which it might 

 easily be confounded ; the outline of the central band of 

 the primaries, nevertheless, is very different, and the 

 lines immediately beyond it are equidistant. 



The following genus is extremely like Euplexia, some 

 of the species differing chiefly in their pectinated 

 antennae, the pattern being almost exactly the same. 



NYSSOCNEMIS, Led. 

 1. Nyssocnemis insignis. 



Euplexia insignis, Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl., 3, 

 p. 724 (1865). 



Xylina turbida, Walker, I.e., p. 754 (1865). 



Var. Hadena skelloni, Butler, Cist. Ent., ii., p. 547 

 (1880). 



New Zealand. Coll. B. M. 



H. skelloni must, I think, be a well-marked variety of 

 this species, in which the large pale patches are wanting, 

 and the ordinary pale lines are green : when examined 

 with a lens the markings are seen to correspond 

 exactly. 



2. Nyssocnemis lignifusca. 



$ , Hadena lignifusca, Walker, Lep. Het., xi., p. 603, 



n. 101 (1857). 

 ? , H. debilis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, p. 385, 



pi. xlii., fig. 6. 

 Xylina spurcata, Walker, Lep. Het., xi., p. 631, n. 21 



(1857). 

 Var. X. vexata, $ , ? , Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl. 3, 



p. 755 (1865). 



