316 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



with a black apical spot, whereas in M. jlexuosa they are 

 brown with a white subapical costal spot. As such diffe- 

 rences do not occur in other species of the genus, it is better 

 to keep the two types separate until a series can be examined ; 

 the figure of M. Jlexuosa agrees with our example of it. 



Melipotis Jlexuosa. 



Ophiusajlextiosa, M^n^tri^s, M^m. Acad. Imp. St. P^tersb. vol. vi. 

 p. 292, pi. vi. fig. 5 (1848). 



" Abscheron." B. M. 



Wliether the word on tlie label is a locality or not, I have 

 not been able to discover. Staudinger gives the localities 

 *' Shores of the Caspian, Syria, Southern Pontus, and 

 S.E. Kirghis." 



Melipotis picta. 

 Lenccmitis picta, Staudinger, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p, 192 (1877). 



Krasnow. B. M. 



We have three examples exhibiting no great variation ; 

 that the species does vary in the usual way is, however, proved 

 by the note in Romanoff (Mdm. vol. iii. p. 91) : — "Among 

 the many examples from Askhabad two females are remark- 

 able for their unusual size and dark hind wings ; the spots 

 are, however, not, as usual, white, but brownish." 



It has been asserted that Leucanitis and Melipotis are 

 synonymous, and as L. rada seems undoubtedly to be a 

 Melipotis, this is correct; but all the si;ecies placed by 

 Dr. Staudinger under Leucanitis are not congeneric : L. cestis 

 and Palpangula J/enkei differ entirely from Melipotis in their 

 palpal structure and may both be placed under Palpangula. 



Melipotis ochrodes. 



(S . Bolina ochrodes, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 04. n. 1400 (1852). 



§ . Bolina heliotJioides, Guenee, /. c. p. 68. n. 1410 (1852), 



cT 5 . Boliyia tenniniferu, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1161. u. 16 (1857). 



(S . Melipotis nigrescens, Gvote (see Cheek-List, p. .39. u. 1144). 



Venezuela, St. Domingo, Jamaica, Texas. In B. M. 



Var. manipularis. 



5 . Bolina manipularis, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 08. n. 1409 (1862). 

 Bolina indomita, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1161, n. 33 (1857). 

 J. Melipotis oclireipennis, Harvey (see Grote, Check-List, p. 39. 

 n. 1146). 



$ ? , Brazil and Kansas. In B. M. 



