634 Mil. w. sciiAUs ON AVAiKEn's [June 16, 



3. On Walker's American Types of Lepidoptera in the 

 Oxford University Museum. 13y W. Schaus, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceiyed April 30, 1896.] 



The following notes on Walker's American types in the Oxford 

 University Museum are to be followed by others, wherein <he 

 complete synonymy will be given of many of the species, and 

 references will also be made to those species which as yet remain 

 unidentified. My special thanks are due to Prof. E. 13. Poulton, 

 P.K.S., for the trouble he took in selectiug the American Moths 

 from the Hope Collection, and sending them family by family to 

 the British Museum to be compared with the coiled ions there and 

 with my own collection ; and to ]Mr. G. F. liampson for his 

 untiring kindness and assistance. Those species marked with an 

 asterisk are represented in my own collection ; those of which I do 

 not possess specimens, and which are not in the British Museum 

 either, have been figured in duplicate, one set of figures being 

 placed in the Entomological Department of that Museum. The 

 species described by Walker in parts 27-30 of his Catalogue, and 

 in the corresponding portions of the Supplement, as being in 

 " Coll. Saunders " never formed jiart of the Hope Collection of the 

 Oxford Museum, but have lately been purchased by the Britisli 

 Museum, where the types are now to be found. 



The references given refer to Walker's ' List of the Specimens of 

 Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum.' 



Vol. III. 

 P. 775. *Norape puella described from the Fry coll. is now in tlie 

 Saunders coll., and is the same as Archylus peciordlis, 

 Walk. 



Vol. IV. 

 P. 801, Sarsina purpurascens. I have not yet been able to find 



the type. 

 P. 895. *Darala falcata=zLonomia submacula, Walk. 

 P. 957. lsych(ujraphaJloccosa. Not identified. 



Vol. V. 



P. 1 046. *Naprepa ccnnelinerdes is a distinct species belonging to 



the Notodontidifi. 

 P. 1115. Laruma heterogenea is a distinct species, the genus 



being the same as Hydrias. 

 P. 1152. Nesara apicalii belongs to the genus Ocha, Walk. 

 P. 1155. *Pamea excavala and Pamea notata are the sexes of one 



species. 

 P. 1155. *Pamea vittata belongs to the genus Carthara, Walk. 

 P. 1170. Mosenta deolis is not Cramer's species, and I therefore 



propose the name of K. tualleri for it ; the species is 



well described by Walker. 



