2-AG Sir G. F. llampsou on the 



XXXI. — The Lepidoptera-Phal^nm of the Bahamas. By 

 Sir Geokge F. Hampson, Bart., B.A., F.Z.S., «&c. 



Up to last year no list of the Lepidoptera of the Bahamas 

 had ever been published, and scattered descriptions of but 

 very few species were all tiiat was known of them. In the 

 P. Z. S. 1900, pp. 197-203, Miss E. M. Sharpe published a 

 list of the butterflies collected by Mr. J. L. Bonhote, which 

 I now supplement by a list of the moths, with the exception of 

 tiie Pterophoridae and Tineidre, which are in the hands of 

 Lord Walsingham. Besides Mr. Bonhote's material we have 

 in the British Museum a few species collected by Mr. Neville 

 Chamberlain in Andros, and I have added to the list the few 

 described by other authors ; but even now scarcely anything 

 is known beyond the species found at Nassau, Mr. Bonhote's 

 specimens having almost all been taken in the gardens of 

 Government House at the electric light; and though on none 

 of the islands does the land rise more than a itw feet above 

 sea-level and the physical features and vegetation are of a 

 similar somewhat arid character, yet as such a prominent 

 insect as Composia JideUissima is confined to one islet near 

 Nassau and to the large island of Andros, I should expect a 

 thorough exploration of the other islands to add considerably 

 to the list of species. Of species which are not widely spread 

 the greater part seem to occur also in Haiti; but our know- 

 ledge of the Lepidoptera of Cuba, Haiti, and the other larger 

 West- Indian islands is so slight that it would be unsafe at 

 present to enlarge on the origin of the Bahamas fauna. 



Syntomid*. 



Bomhiliodes carminata, sp. n. 



$ . Differs from B. capistrata in the tegulaj and patagia 

 being deep crimson; palpi crimson in front; throat white; 

 sides of pectus and legs striped with crimson ; abdomen deep 

 crimson, with the sublateral white marks smaller and with a 

 ventral series of short black bands. 



Hab. Nassau {Bonhote), 1 ? type. Exp. 32 millim. 



Eunomia latenigra, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 395 

 (1876); Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. i. p. 202, pi. vii. 

 fig. 18. 



Nassau [Bonhote), '6^,2 $ ; Andros (Xeville Chamber- 

 kiin), 1 <J. 



