304 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOFTERA [June 5, 



Andaman Islands, Shangliai, Kutch, Solun, and Rockhampton, and 

 must therefore belong to a species of very general distribution. 



Of the five examples now sent from Campbellpore, two have the 

 lower half of the reniform stigma filled up with pale ochreous, which, 

 in one example, certainly is placed more obliquely, as in A. stiymatula, 

 Snellen. 



Now, of the four examples in the British Museum collection of 

 A. stiymatula, Snellen (the characteristic of which is that the reni- 

 form stigma is oblique and filled up with ochreous, instead of white), 

 one is from Kurrachee, two from Aden, and one from the Congo ; 

 while Snellen's own types come from Lower Guinea. 



Of A. stellata, Butler (in which species the reniform stigma is filled 

 up wirh j9Mre white, and is said to be less oblique), there are speci- 

 mens from Tokio, and one from Kutch, from the Indian Museum, 

 set low, and evidently from the same lot as the five from the same 

 source placed under Amyna striata (cephusalis), one of which also is 

 from Kutch. 



Of a third species, A. undulifera, Butler, from Natal, the single 

 type in the British Museum collection is indistinguishable from one 

 oi A. cephusalis from the Andaman Islands, in both of which the red 

 tints predominate. In a single example from Shanghai, of a dark 

 reddish-brown tint, this colour has entirely swamped the usually 

 pale outlines of the transverse lines and stigmata. 



Taking all these facts into consideration, I cannot help coming to 

 the conclusion that A. stiymatula, Snellen, A. stellata, Butler, A. un- 

 dulifera, Butler, and the unnamed reddish form from Shanghai, are all 

 merely local forms of one widely spread and variable species, ^. stricta, 

 Wlk. ' 



Mr. Moore (Ceylon, iii. p. 27) implies that the specimens with 

 the reniform stigma filled up with grey are males, those filled up with 

 ochreous or white, females ; but, in fact, both variations in the 

 stigma occur in each sex. 



49. Laphygma exigua. (Nos. 51, 54, 64.) 

 Noctua exiyua, Hb. Eur. Schmet. fig. 362. 



Five females and four males from Campbellpore, and one female 

 from Rawal Pindi, taken from April to July, with the remark ap- 

 pended, " very common." 



50. AgROTIS ARlSTtFERA. (No. 72.) 



Ayrotis aristifera, Gu. Noct. i. p. 266. 



Jyrotis munda, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. x. p. 348. 



One female, worn, from Eawal Piudi, March 28th, 1887 ; and one 

 male, small, taken at Campbellpore. This latter, in the shortness of 

 the claviform stigma and the absence of the black dagger-shaped 

 marks before the submarginal line, resembles the Australian form, 

 munda. Col. Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 1884, p. 516) records the species 

 from Kurrachee as common, and, like this example of the female, 

 taken early in the year, viz. February. 



