1884.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM ADEN. 495 



LlTHOSIID.E. 



49. Deiopeia pulchella. 



Tinea pulchella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884, n. 349 (1766). 

 Three specimens, Aden. 



Leucaniid.e. 



50. Leucania extranea. 



Leucania extranea, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 77, n. 104. 

 One bad specimen, Aden (C. Swinhoe). 



The specimen was just good enough to permit of its being recog- 

 nized. 



Xylophasiidje. 



51. Xylophasia opposita, var. 



Mamestra opposita, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 667 (1865). 



3 , Aden. 



Only differs from the type-specimens (from S. India and Ceylon) in 

 having an oblique diffused belt of scarcely perceptibly redder colour 

 from centre of inner margin to apex of primaries. 



The species of Xylophasia are well known to be variable in the 

 ground-colour of the wings, and dimorphism is probably prevalent, as 

 with X. rurea and var. combusta (which resembles a Mamestra). I 

 should not be surprised if the N. -American Mamestra dubitans 

 prove to be a similar dimorphic form of Xylophasia liynieolora. 



52. Prodenia caradrinoides. 



$ Laphygma caradrinoides, Walker, Lep. Het. ix. p. 190, n. 8 

 (1856). 



$ Prodenia ingloria, Walker, I.e. xv. p. 16/9 (1858). 



S 2 , Aden. 



The type of L. caradrinoides was from Natal, but that of P. in- 

 gloria from Moreton Bay, so that their separation as distinct species 

 was excusable ; we have received both sexes together from the 

 Hawaiian Islands. The range of this species is therefore most 

 extensive. 



Apamiid^s. 



53. Perjgea inexacta. 



Perigea inexacta, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 682 (1865). 



Aden (Swinhoe). 



The type of the species was from the Cape of Good Hope. 



54. Amyna stigmatula ? 



Erastria stigmatula, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xv. pi. 4. fig. 15 

 (1872). 



Aspect above of A. stellata of Japan, from which, however, it 

 differs in the grey-edged scales of the primaries, giving it a mottled 



