246 Sir G. F. Hampson on the 
XXXI1.—The Leprvorrers-Pusrane of the Bahamas. By 
Sir Grorce 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 that was known of them. In the 
P. Z. 8. 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 
the Pterophoride and Tineidee, 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 few 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 fidelliss(ma 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. 
Syntomide. 
Bombiliodes carminata, sp. n. 
9. Differs from B. capistrata in the tegule 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 2 type. Hwp. 32 millim. 
Eunomia latenigra, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 395 
(1876); Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. i. p. 202, pl. vii. 
fig. 18. 
Nassau (Bonhote), 3 8, 2 9 ; Andros (Neville Chamber- 
lain), 1 ¢. 
