289 



Boarmia promptaria. Walker : xxi. 379. 



Cotes and Swinh. : 1. c., 501. 3333. 



Ophthalmodes cretacea. Butler : Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), iv. p. 373 (1879). 

 Type (reciprocarid). Congo, in B. M. 

 Type (imparatd). Nepal, in B. M. 

 Type (prompt arid). India, in B. M. 

 Type (cretacea). Japan, in B. M. 

 a. N. China. b. Darjiling. c. Indore (5) (Hearsay) 



d. Khasia Hills (2). 



This common European species seems to be very widely distributed, 

 the African and Japanese types are larger than usual, but not larger 

 than a European female in the Zeller Collection in the B. M. 



GENUS BOARMIA. Treit. : Schm. Eur., v. ii. p. 433 (1825). 



Alcis. Curt.: Brit. Ent., pi. 113 (1829). 



Chogada. Moore: Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 415 (1887). 



Narapa. Moore: 1. c., p. 410. 



Catoria. Moore: 1. c., p. 414. 



Serraca. Moore: 1. c., p. 416. 



Calicha. Moore: Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., p. 236 (1888). 



Astacuda. Moore: 1. c., p. 243. 

 Pceoilalcis. Warren: P. Z. S., Lond., 1893, p. 430. 



2555. Boarmia alienaria. 



Boarmia alienaria. Walker: xxi. 370 $ (1860). 



Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1867, P- 630. 

 - Swinhoe : Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1894, p. 216. 

 Chogada alienaria. Moore : Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 415, pi. 191, f. I a, b. 



- C. and S. : Cat. Moths of India, iv. 503. 3349 (1888). 

 Hampson : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., viii. 27. 756 



(1891) ; ix. 36. 930 (1893). 

 Boarmia gelidaria. Walker: xxvi. 1537 ? (1862). 



- Swinhoe : P. Z. S., Lond., 1885, p. 853. 

 Boarmia illustraria. Walker : xxvi. 1539. 



Chogada fraterna. Moore : Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., p. 245. 

 Cotes and Swinh. : 1. c., 3350. 



Boarmia acaciaria. Hmn. : (part) Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, iii. p. 264 (1895). 

 Type (qelidarid). India, in B. M. 

 Type (illustraria). Moreton Bay, in B. M. 

 T yP e (fraterna). Darjiling, in coll. Staudinger. 

 a. Silhet (type). b. Darjiling. c. India (2). d. Silhet. 



e. Andaman Islands. f. Khasia Hills. 



The type alienaria is in this Museum from Silhet, and not in the 

 British Museum from Ceylon, as has been supposed ; in every instance 

 in Walker's Catalogue when the type is in coll. Saunders and 

 the species is also represented in the B. M., the locality of the type 

 is given without a letter, and is then followed by the localities with 



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