NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 45 



had found such a Tom Tiddler's ground, would be tempted away 

 for the purpose of collecting on the beaten high road between 

 Folkestone and Sandgate. 



Further remarks seem unnecessar}-, as it must be obvious, 

 from the three omissions cited, that Mr. Greene's inferences have 

 been drawn from wrong premises, 



Camden Eoad, London, N.W., Jan. 13, 1893. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 



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



(Continued from vol. xxv. p. 286.) 



Crioa, Walk. 



Crioa acronyctoides. 



Crioa acronyctoides, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1111, n. 1 



(1857). 

 Xylina? applicata, Walker, L c, xv. p. 1736 (1858). 

 Briarda? indistincta, Walker, I.e., Suppl. 3, p. 894 (1865). 

 Moreton Bay. Types in Coll. B. M. 



All the types are from the same locality, and two of them 

 were obtained by the same collector. 



Felinia, Guen. 

 Briada, Walk. 

 Felinia spissa. 

 Felinia spiissa, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 322, n. 1783 (1852). 

 Briarda (sic) decens, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1098, n. 1 



_ (1857). 

 India and Ceylon. 



Felinia precedens. 



? Briarda (sic) precedens, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1098 



n. 2 (1857). 

 ^Briarda (sic) antecedens, Walker, I.e., p. 1099, n. 3 (1857). 

 India, Ceylon, and Sumatra. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Pandesma, Guen. 

 Pandesma quenavadi.* 

 Pandesma quenavadi, Guen., Noct. ii. p. 438, n. 1310 (1852). 

 Thria robusta, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1112, n. 1 (1857). 



* P. anysa, Guen., appears to be a stunted specimen of this species ; 

 Cerhia partita, Walk., the Australian representative; and P.jubra, Swinh., 

 probably only a fine variety. The latter, however, has no pale apical spot to 

 the secondaries, the entire fi-inge of which wings is white, and the black discal 

 patches below are more prominent ; so that at present it must be considered 

 distinct. Michera submurina, Walker, is an alhed, but unquestionably dis- 

 tinct, species, though certainly not a distinct genus, 



