Noctuid Genus Mclipotis, Hiihn. 325 



The description of Bolina mesoleuca, Walker, Char. Het. 

 Lep. p. 51 (1869), is utterly unintelligible and probably repre- 

 sents a species of some other family. No locality is recorded. 



Bolina agrotidea, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 3" sdr. 

 vol. i. p. 346 (1879), from Madagascar, of course has nothing 

 to do with the genus ; but what it is I cannot pretend to say. 

 It is not included in Saalmiiller's work published in 1881. 

 Perhaps, in the absence of any positive knowledge of its 

 affinities, this species may be best placed under Tarasanay 

 Moore, to which genus Melipotis sinualis^ Harvey {^^^ Bolina 

 acontioides) belongs. 



I believe that Bolina hadeniformis^ Behr, Trans. Am. 

 Ent. Soc. iii. p. 25 (1871), from California, is nothing more 

 than one of the many female varieties of M. ochrodes. We 

 have a female from St. Domingo for which the description 

 might have been written. Every form of this variable 

 species seems to have been favoured with a name. 



Moeschler considers Bolina leucomelana, Herrich-SchafFer, 

 Corr.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 1868, p. 186, from 

 Cuba, to be allied to Melipotis contorta, but distinct ; some of 

 the characters by which he distinguishes it are, however, 

 possessed by our examples of M. contorta. B. rectifascia^ 

 H.-Sch. (/oc. ciV.), appears to me to be M. perpendicularis^ 

 and according to Moeschler M. parcicolor is only a worn 

 example of M. rectifascia. 



Several species placed by Staudinger in his Catalogue 

 under Leucanitis are unknown to me, and may or may not 

 belong to this genus. 



Having thus summed up the named species of Melipotis, I 

 find that I have two species to name, viz. : — 



Melipotis Walkeri, sp. n. 



cJ . Primaries above with the basal fifth pale greyish 

 brown, bounded externally by a slightly sinuous blackish 

 band, tapering from inner margin to costal vein and followed 

 by a broad clear ochreous belt ; the latter twice as wide on 

 inner margin as at its anterior extremity, with convex inner 

 and concave outer margin ; this belt is connected (after the 

 manner of that of M. peipendicularis) by an oblique grey bar 

 to the rcniform spot, which is confluent with the latter, grey 

 enclosing two black dots, margined on the upper half of its 

 inner margin by a curved, transverse, black-edged white 



