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species ; the markings of Schinia separata, however, differ 

 throughout from those of S. acutilinea. S. ivalsinghami, of which 

 we have twelve examples from Lord Walsingham's collection, 

 is a perfectly constant orange-tawny form, and stood alone in 

 that collection ; all the specimens were obtained at the " Sheep 

 Eock." S. halha differs chiefly from the latter in its more 

 olivaceous colouring and the white external border of primaries. 

 No constant local form should be termed a variety. 



Anarta, Ochs. 

 Anarta richardsoni. 

 Hadena richardsoni, Curtis, Append. Eoss. Narr. 2nd Voy. 



p. 72, pi. A, fig. 11. 

 Anarta septentrionis, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 700, n. 10 



(1857). 

 Lapland, Grinnell Land, Nova Zembla. Coll. B. M. 

 Under this species Walker placed specimens of a form with 

 obscure markings and smoky secondaries, which I believe to be 

 entirely distinct. 



Anarta quieta. 

 Noctua quieta, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. Noct. fig. 485. 

 ^Anarta constricta, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 701 n. 11 (1857). 

 ? A. rigida, Walker, I. c, n. 12 (1857). 

 Lapland, Finmark, Arctic America. Coll. B. M. 

 A. kellogii is nearly allied to A. melanopa, an example of 

 which from California was in Grote's collection ; it, however, 

 appears to be distinct. A. nivaria is very close to A. impingens. 



Melicleptria, Hiihn. 

 1 cannot think that my friend Grote has improved this genus 

 in his Eevised Check List by uniting Adonisea with it, or by 

 turning M. prorupta and oregonica into Melaporphyria ; as to 

 M. oregonica or oregona being synonymous with the European 

 Heliothis ononis, it is quite out of the question. The resemblance 

 between the two species, when examined side by side with an 

 inch lens, is seen at once to be superficial ; the pattern does not 

 at all correspond, and the structure of the palpi differs consider- 

 ably. "Melicleptria" hoyi, Grote (Check List, p. 36, n. 960), is 

 "Anarta" hrephoides, Walker (Lep. Het. xi. p. 702, n. 13) ; with 

 the latter. Walker associated a species intermediate in pattern 

 between M. prorupta and oregonica, and bearing a label with the 

 legend, " 513 or 412. Agarista simplicicornis," but with no indi- 

 cation of locality. It is labelled in the same handwriting as one 

 of the other five examples (= M. hoyi). The pectinated antennae 

 at once remove M. hoyi from Melicleptria to the neighbourhood 

 of Brephos. 



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