Noctuid Oenus Meli{)otl>s, Ililhn. .'i2.'} 



Melipotis rada. 



Microphtsa rada, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, 2" s6r. vi. Bull. xxx. 

 p. 12. 



Helenendoif. In B. M. 



BULIA, Walker { = Biula, Walk.). 



This little genus, if distinct from Melipotis^ is very nearly 

 allied to it. All the examples which I have seen have the 

 third joint of the palpi short and projecting forward from the 

 extremity of the second ; the males have very finely ciliated 

 antennse. Herr Snellen has, however, figured two totally 

 different types of palpi for his BoUna ahrupta ; otherwise I 

 should have supposed tliem to be mere sports of Guen^e's 

 Bolina brimneari'Sy of which the following is the synonymy: — 



Bulla hrunnearis. 



BoJma bninnearis, Guen6e, Noct. iii. p. 68. n. 1408 (1852). 

 Bolina conjirmans. Walker, Lep. Hot. xiii. p. 1157. n. 25 (1857). 

 Bolina umhrosa, Walker, /. c. p. 1158. n. 2Q (1857). 

 Bolina recipiens, Walker, I. c. p. 1165. n. 41 (1857). 

 Biula propria, Walker, /. c. p. 1170. n. 1 (1857). 

 Arsisaca bolinalis, Walker, /. c. Suppl. iv. p. 1262 (1865). 



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



Three of Walker's five types are of the same variety and 

 nearly resemble in pattern Snellen's figure 1 of B. ahrupta, 

 whereas the two others are of the type represented by his 

 figure 2. 



Bulla ahrupta. 



Bolina ahrupta, Snellen, Tijdschr. voor Ent. xxx. p. 44, pi. iv. figs. 1, 

 1 rt, 2, 2 a (1887). 



CuraQao. 



I fail to see any reason for separating Girrhoholina from 

 Bulla ; both pattern and structure seem to agree admirably. 



Melipotis agrotipennis, Harvey, is Bolina ai/rotoides. 

 Walker, and belongs to the genus Pandesma. 



Leucanitis tenera, Staudinger (in litt.?), from Russia, and 

 its variety L. ontiqua (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 5G), L. nana, 

 and perhaps Balpangula cesti7ia and spilota (Romanoff's M^m. 

 L^p. i. pi. ix. figs. 6, 7, and 8), probably belong to Walker's 

 genus Anumeta; L. tenera certainly does, for it not only has 

 almost the same pattern and coloration, but agrees in structure, 

 the third joint of the palpi being very short. 



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