116 Mr. Butler on tlic Lepidupteroats (leuun Dioptis. 



Genus Hyrmixa. Wallier. 



Group 10. Hyrmina. WaU-er. 



This and the following genera will come after Erhcssn, being 

 succeeded by Uonora, Scaptia Aldia, Cnroha, Bijtharta, iSecnsia, 

 Nijctemera, and allies ; aU of which may be referred to the 

 Nyctemeridw. 



Hyrmina areolata. 



Dlop)tis {Hyrmina) areolata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. 2, p. 

 332, n. 20 (1854). 



Epilais melda, Boisduval, Le]). (lUat. p. 78. 

 Brazil, {Argent). Type B.M. 



Mr. Walker confounded several species under this name, but 

 it would be useless to describe them without figures, as they 

 differ in points which can scarcely be iuade clearly intelligible 

 by description alone. 



Mr. Boisduval gives Nicaragua and Quito as the localities of 

 this species. 



Hyrmina onega. 



Dioptis oneqa, Bates, Trans. Liun. 8oc. XXIII, pi. LV, fig. 

 12 (1862). 



Laurona oneqia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. 1, p. 149 

 (1864). 



Ega, {Bates). Type B.M. 



Hyrmina nodiluces. 



Dioptis noctiluces, Butler, Cist. Ent. 1, p. 88 (Jan. 1872) ; 

 Lep. Exot. p. 176, n. 2; pi. LXI, fig. 7 (1874). 



Var. Diop)tis erycinoides, Felder, Eeise der Nov. Lep. 4. Tab. 

 CV, fig. 4 (1874). 



Cartago, Costa Rica, {Van Patten). Type B.M. 



Hyrmina ithomeina. 



Dioptis ithomeina, Butler, Cist. Ent. 1, p. 87 (Jan. 1872), 

 Lep. Exot. p. 175, n. 1 ; pi. LXI, fig. 8 (1874). 



Dioptis Saloini, Felder Reise der Nov. Lep. 4, Tab. CV, fig. 

 5 (1874). 



Cartago, Costa Rica, {Van Patten). Type B.M. 



