20 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hypocala. 



List of Species. 



Hypocala subsatura. 



S . Hypocala subsatura, Gueni^e, Noct. iii. p. 75. n. 1419 (1852). 

 Var, a. Hypocala aspersa, Butler, P. Z. S. 18S3, p. 164. 

 Var. b. Hypocala limhata, Butler, lU. Tj^. Lep. Het. vii. p. 70, 

 pi. cxxxi. fig. 13 (1889). 



Dharmsala, Solun, and Canara. B. M. 



Hypocala dejlorata. 



Noctua dejlorata, Fabricius, Naturf. p. 190, pi. ii. figs. 6, 7. 



Var. a. Hypocala plumicornis, Gueii6e, Noct. iii. p. 75. n. 1420 (1852). 



Hypocala efflorescens, Guen^e, /. c. p. 77. n. 1423 (1852). 



Hypocala anyulipalpis, Guen^e, I. c. n. 1424 (1852). 



Var. h. Noctua 7-ostrata, Fabricius, Naturf. p. 197, pi, iv. fig. 4. 



Madras, N. India, Dharmsala, Nilgiris, Kilima-njaro, 

 Natal. B. M. 



It is a common form of superstition amongst naturalists to 

 assume that examples of the same species cannot occur both 

 in India and Africa ; M. Guenee was evidently strongly 

 imbued with this opinion. The difference represented by the 

 following words alone serves to separnte H. plumicornis and 

 efflorescens : of the first it is said, " Un seul $ , qui m'a 4te 

 envoy^ corame venant de la Cafrerie : mais cette provenance 

 me laisse quelques doutes." Why? Because in other 

 respects it closely resembled //. efflorescens, of which we read, 

 " Silhet. Coll. Gn. Un ^ ." As for H anguUpalpis, it 

 was based upon a single dwarfed and much rubbed example. 



Hypocala guttwentris. 



Hypocala gutiiventris, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1176. n. 10 (1857). 

 Hypocala tryphcenina, Felder, Ileise der Nov., Lep. iv. pi. cxii. fig. 20. 

 Var. a. Hypocala lativitta, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 929 (1865), 



Moreton Bay and S.E. Australia. Type B. M. 



Hypocala andremona. 



PhalcBua-Noctua andremo7ia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv, p. 132, pi, ccclviii, 



figs. C, D (1782), 

 Hypocala filicornis, Guende, Noct, iii, p, 76. n. 1421, pi, xiii, fig. 7 



(1852), 

 Var, a. Hypocala Fierreti, Guenee, I. c. p, 77, n. 1425 (1852). 



Honduras, Amazons, Sao Paulo. B. M. 



