Tl6 QUADRIFID^. 



Noctua caprimulgus. Fabr. : Ent. Syst., iii. (2) 10. 7 (1794). 

 Phalana caprimulgus. Gmel. : ed. Syst. Nat., i. (5) 2529. 965 (1787). 



Argiva caprimulgus. Walker: xiv. 1302 (1858). 



Moore: P. Z. S., Lond., 1867, p. 72 ; 1878, p. 848. 



Swinhoe : P. Z. S., Lond., 1885, p. 462. 



- C. and S. : Cat. Moths of India, iii. 386. 2534 (1888). 



- Swinhoe: Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1890, p. 240; 



and 1895, p. 58. 



Hmn. : 111. Typ. Lep. Het.,B. M.,viii. 19. 533 (1891). 



Nyctipao exterior. Walker : xiv. 1 306. 



Butler: Ill.Typ.Lep.Het.,B.M.,vi.p.45,pl.ii2,f.3(i886). 



Moore: Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Iv. (2) p. 100 (1886). 



Cotes and Swinhoe : 1. c., 388. 2540. 



Nyctipao obliterans. Walker: xiv. 1307. 



Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1867, p. 72. 



Nyctipao truncata. Moore : 1. c., 1877, p. 608. 



Cotes and Swinhoe: 1. c., 389. 2544. 



Types (exterior and obliterans). Silhet, in B. M. 

 Type (truncata). Andamans, in B. M. 



a. Silhet. b. Khasia Hills. c. India (3). d. Assam. 



e. Flores (Wallace). 



1891. Argiva serosa. nov. 



<j Allied to A. caprimulgus Fabr. : pale brown with a brazen 

 tinge, not black brown as in that species : the ocellus ringed round, 

 smaller, not whorl shaped, with its outer circle not looping down to 

 vein 2, but completely ringed above the vein, its upper part below 

 the sub-costal vein : blue irridescent specs inside it in patches, as 

 well as outlining the head of the lobe inside the ring : a brown 

 fascia outside the ocellus, another across the disc : a sub-marginal 

 brown sinuous line : hind-wings and underside of a uniform brown ; 

 the underside without any of the usual white spots : fore-wings with- 

 an indistinct line of white sub-marginal specs on the veins. 



Expanse of wings, 3^% inches. 

 a. Gilolo (type) (Doherty). 



1892. Argiva lunaris. 



Bocana lunaris. W T alker : xxxi. 57 (1864). 

 Coria lunaris. Walker: xxxv. 1982 (1866). 



a. Makian, Celebes (type) (Wallace). b. Makian (Wallace). 



c. Talisse, Celebes (S. J. Hickson). 



GENUS HUIiODES. Guen. : Noct, iii. p. 207 (1852). 



1893. Hulodes caranea. 



Phalana- Noctua caranea. Cram.: Pap. Exot, iii. pi. 269, f. E. F (1782). 

 Bendis caranea. Hiibn. : Verz., 269. 2650 (1816). 

 Hulodes caranea. Guen.: Noct., iii. 208. 1608 (1852). 



Walker: xiv. 1335 (1858). 

 Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1867, p. 73. 



