1C2 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 3, 



H. armigera. The original description was taken from a specimen 

 collected at ^Nloretou Bay ; in New Zealand it is a common form ; and 

 in both these localities it is redder than specimens coming from India 

 or Africa. The specimen before me would perhaps be more correctly 

 placed as a dark form of H. conferta. Respecting this and the 

 preceding species. Colonel Swinhoe says: — "Three varieties of 

 Heliothis armigera : has each a specific name ? All these kinds 

 have been captured by me in Sind, Afghanistan, and Central India ; I 

 have also single examples of two other varieties." 



81. Anth^cia swinhoei, sp. n. 



Primaries above laky-brown, shining reddish cupreous in some 

 lis-hts, speckled with blackish, crossed in the middle by a slightly 

 irregular and rather narrow blackish band ; apex bordered with 

 blackish ; costa spotted with blackish : secondaries bright ochre- 

 yellow, with a rather broad black external border ; fringe golden ; a 

 slender curved grey line across the centre of the ochreous area : 

 thorax reddish ; abdomen blackish, the segments edged with ochra- 

 ceous. Primaries below blackish with faint lake-red reflections ; a 

 large spot at the end of the cell and a submarginal stripe black, but 

 only visible in certain lights ; costa and fringe golden ochraceous ; 

 secondaries ochreous, grey-speckled ; external border greyish, tinted 

 with reddish at apex, bounded internally by two imperfect parallel 

 blackish stripes, a third across the ochreous area as above, but better 

 defined : body below pale golden, sericeous ; tarsi banded with grey. 

 Expanse of wings 26 mm. 



Assirghur, October 1881. 



This is a very distinct and beautiful little species. 



82. Eriopus latreillii. 



Eriopus latreillii, Duponchel, Suppl. Lep. France, iv. p. 327, 

 pi. 123. fig. 2. 



Solun, in June. 



This species, being structurally distinct from the other forms 

 hitherto associated with it under Callopistria, Hiibner, may be 

 regarded henceforth as the type of Treitschke's genus Eriopus, nwAex 

 which it stood as Eriopus quieta. 



83. Plusia nigrisigna. 



Plusia nigrisigna, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 928, n. 87 

 (1857). 



" Kasauli, in September ; I have it also from Umballa, and one 

 very dark example from Solun." — C. S, 



84. Penicillaria delatrix. 



Penicillaria delatrix, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 304, n. 1112 (18.52). 

 Clue to exact locality missing. The Museum examples are all from 

 Java. 



