Noctuid Oenus Melipotis, Iliibn. 321 



Melipotis novanda. 



Bolina novanda, Guen^e, Noct. iii. p. 64. n. 139i^) (1852). 

 Boliyia lucufera?, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. llo2. n. 17 (1857). 



St. Domingo. In B. M. 



I do not feel quite certain of this identification, but Walker's 

 species answers pretty closely to M. Guende's description. 

 Walker's identification was utterly erroneous, the example 

 from Jamaica being M. famelica. 



Melipotis evelina. 

 Bolina evelina, Butler, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 487. n. 94. 



Jamaica. Type in B. M. 



Allied to the preceding species, but, I think, distinct, tlie 

 postdiscoidal spot being externally bidentate instead of tri- 

 dentate. 



Melipotis strigifera. 



Bolitia strigifera, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1153. n. 18 (1852). 



St. Domingo. Type in B. M. 



This species differs from the following in the undentated 

 character of the postdiscoidal spot of primaries. 



Melipotis contorta. 



Bolina cojitorta, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 64. k. 1401 (1852). 

 Bolina bistriga, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1155. n. 22 (1857). 

 Bolivia striolaris, Herrich-SchsiHer, Corr.-Blatt zool. min. Ver. Regensb, 

 1868, p. 186. 



St. Domingo. In B. M. 



Melipotis comprehendens. 

 Bolina comprehendens. Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1163. n. 37 (1852). 



Brazil. Type in B. M. 



This species is intermediate in character between M. con- 

 torta and M. prolata ; it is of the same size as the former, 

 with a similarly bidentated postdiscoidal spot on primaries; 

 but in the obscure character of its markings, in the pattern of 

 the secondaries and of the under surface, it more nearly 

 approaches the latter. 



Melipotis prolata. 

 Gerespa prolata. Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1169. n. 1 (1857). 

 Jamaica. Type in B. M. 

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