synonymy of the genera of Noctuites. 689 



the same species : these may therefore be added to the 

 synonymy of A. ignobilis. 



P. niveirena is not a Perigea ; it would be better placed 

 in Homohadena. 



CONDICA, Walk. 

 This is only a distinctly marked group of Perigea. 



1. Condica cupentia. 



Noctua cupentia, Cramer, Pap. Exot., iii., pi. cclii., 



fig. E (1782). 



Condica palpalis, Walker, Lep. Het., ix., p. 240, n. 1 

 (1856). 



N. America, St. Domingo, Jamaica. Coll. B. M. 



Var. C. epopea. 

 Noctua epopea, Cramer, Pap. Exot., iii., pi. cclxxii., 



figs. G, H (1782). 

 " Hadena" confederata, Grote, on label (see Check 



List, p. 28, n. 478). 

 United States. Coll. B. M. 



Var. C. infelix. 



Perigea infelix, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 229, n. 868 (1852). 

 N. America and Callao. Coll. B. M. 



Of the above three fairly well-defined forms of a very 

 variable species, C. cupentia has the primaries silvery 

 whitish, with dark brown markings ; C. epopea has the 

 silvery colouring stained with orange ferruginous, and 

 C. infelix has the primaries suffused with brown. 



AMYNA, Guenee. 

 1. Amyna selenampha. 

 Amyna selenampha, Guenee, Noct., i., p. 406, n. 378 



(1852). 

 Var. Alamis spoliata, Walker, Lep. Het., xiii., p. 1050 



n. 11 (1857). 

 Hadena latipennis, Walker, I. c. t Suppl., 3, p. 738 



(1865). 



Asia, Africa, and Australasia. Coll. B. M. 

 The variety twice named by Walker belongs to the 



