From the ANMALS A^n MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 

 Ser. 6. Vol. xii., Dcwmltrr 



On a Small Collection of Lepidoptera from Chili. 

 By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



A SHORT time since Herr G. Ruschewegh, of Buenos Aires, 

 wrote to ask whether I would undertake to determine a series 

 of Chilian Geometrse, conditionally on the specimens being 

 >resented to the British Museum ; to this I agreed, and 

 luring September a box of Lepidoptera in papers came to 

 land, some of which, indeed, are not Geometrae and several 

 )f which, when set up, I found to be in such bad condition as 

 to be unrecognizable. The latter are numbered respectively 

 follows: Deltoids (nos. 12, 78, and 120), Geometrge 

 (nos. 17, 61, 63 in fragments, 111, 137, and 147), these nine 

 examples being all worn, rubbed, and more or less broken, 

 err Ruschewegh forwarded with the specimens a letter, in 

 h he proposed a number of names for the new species, the 

 majority of which are, however, so unclassical in character 

 that it would not be possible to employ them. The following 

 is a catalogue of all the recognizable species : 



Hepialid.se. 



1. Dalaca subfervenSj Butler. 

 Ddaca subfervens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 25. n. 39. 



In my account of the Bombyces of Chili I recognized six 

 species of Dalaca^ five of which Mr. Hampson has since put 

 together under the name of D. pollens, Blanch. : breeding 

 alone will decide whether he is right in so doing ; at present, 

 judging from the extraordinary variability of many of the 

 Chilian Lepidoptera, it is quite as possible as it is at present 

 unproved. 



N C T U M. 



2. Peridroma saucia, Hiibner. 

 Peridroma saucia, Hiibner, Samml. eur. Schmett., Noct. fig. 378. 



The examples are links between typical P. saucia and 

 P. hostilis and are labelled D, F, H, and C 6 respectively. 



