288 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



structure ; its remarkable pattern is indicated in S. pudens of the 

 United States. 



Casandria, JValk. 

 Casandria ? fiUfera. 

 $ Laphygma fiUfera, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 719 (1857). 

 ? L.ferrocana, Walker, I.e., p. 720 (1857). 

 $ L. nigriscripta, Walker, I. c, Suppl. 2, p. 649 (1865). 

 St. Domingo and Jamaica. In Coll. B. M. 



BRYOPHILID^. 

 Aquis, Walk. 

 Aquis viridisquama. 

 Aquis viridisquama, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1652 (1858). 

 A. alhosparsa, Walker, I. c, Suppl. 2, p. 611 (1865). 

 Dimirica nuhifera, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 56 (1864). 

 Borneo and -Java. In Coll. B. M. 



Bryophila discitincta, Walk., is Pachnohia imperita, Hiibn, 

 In my opinion, Nolaphana should be placed in the Bryophilidse, 

 as also Pseudina. The genera Cosmodes, Canna, and Jaspidea 

 are probably Cymatophoridge. 



NOCTUID^. 



Agrotis (auct.). 



In his revision of this genus. Prof. John B. Smith has rather 

 severely criticised my action with regard to some of the North 

 American species, but especially AmatJies phyllopliora (to vsrhich, 

 by the way, I must add Mythimna subporphyrea, Walk., as a 

 synonym*). He points out that this species of Grote's differs in 

 having spine-like bristles in rows along the anterior tibiae, and 

 he holds that these constitute not merely a good specific, but a 

 good generic, distinction. It is possible that I may eventually 

 have to use such apparently trivial characters for the breaking 

 up of unwieldy genera ; therefore, for the present, I will only 

 say that, if constant, a character of this kind appears to be a 

 sound one for distinguishing species. 



Curiously enough, Grote mentioned the spinous character of 

 the fore tibise in his description, yet, in his collection, specimens 

 with and without these spine-like bristles stood together under 

 both phyllopliora and alternata; and although so good a lepi- 

 dopterist as Grote would doubtless have discovered his error in 

 labelling had he sat down to study his specimens, it was not to 

 be expected that I should find out that an apparently variable 

 character, in a series of specimens having the same pattern and 

 allied to a variable European species, was of at least specific 

 importance. 



* Walker's type is slightly faded and without abdomen, but is certainly typical 

 A. plnillopliora, which it will probably supersede. 



