292 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 



By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 266.) 



Pyrrhia, Hilhn. 



Pyrrhia uinbra. 



Noctua umbra, Hufnagel, Berl. M. iii. p. 294 (1767). 



Pyrrhia exprimens, Grote (not Walker), see Check List, p. 36, 



n. 97. 

 Europe, Dharmsala, United States. Coll. B. M. 



Pyrrhia exprimens. 



Heliothis exprimens, Walker, Lep. Hist. xi. p. 687, n. 13 (1857). 



Pyrrhia angulata, Grote (see Check List, p. 36, n. 998). 



United States. Coll. B. M. 



Although it is just possible that the P. exprimens of Grote 

 may prove to be locally worthy of being called var. roseilimhata, 

 on account of the tint of the borders of the secondaries, the 

 P. exprimens of Walker cannot, unfortunately, be distinguished 

 from P. angulata. 



ScHiNiA, Hubner. 



There is no possibility of rejecting this genus, as, even 

 according to Grote himself, the three species associated by 

 Hiibner under Schinia are congeneric. I fail to see where the 

 absurdity of its adoption in preference to Lygranthcecia comes 

 in ; moreover, Grote tells us that the marginata of Haworth is 

 the type of his Lygranthcecia, in which case the latter genus will 

 be a synonym of Pyrrhia. 



Schinia trifascia. 

 Schinia trifascia, Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. figs. 33, 34. 

 Anthophila lineata, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 830, n. 16 



(1857). 

 United States. Coll. B. M. 



Walker's description of the primaries is most eccentric. He 

 calls these wings whitish, with four aeneous bands ; this descrip- 

 tion reversed would be more correct, the bronze colouring 

 occupying the greater part of the surface. 



I cannot comprehend the synonymy of ''Lygranthcecia" 

 separata as given in the Eevised Check List, and which stands 

 as follows : — 



separata, Grt. 

 Var. acuiilinea, Grt. 

 Var. ivalsinghami, Ed. 

 Var. balba, Grt. 



It appears to me just possible, though very improbable, that 

 the first two may be forms of one, and the last two of a second, 



