46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cerhiafugitiva, Walker, l.e,, xiv. p. 1365, n. 1 (1857). 



Asia and Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



Guenee's genus Pantydia (type P. sjKirsa, from Australia) is 

 closely allied to the European Pseudophia illmiaris. It has not 

 at all the aspect of a Polydesmid. 



POLYDESMA, Boisd. 



Polydesma umhricola. 

 $ Polydesma umhricola, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. 

 p. 108, n. 1, pi. 13, fig. 5 (1833). 



P. laudida, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 441, n. 1313 (1852). 

 ^P. hoarmoides, Guenee, I.e., n. 1314 (1852). 



Madagascar, Mauritius, Africa, India, Ceylon, Moulmein, 

 Java. In Coll. B. M. 



Guenee's type of P. hoarmoides has the tufts on the front of 

 the anterior tibiae rather more orange than usual. I have very 

 little doubt that P. scrijJtilis, Guen., is also identical with 

 P. umhricola. That species is in our collection from Silhet, and 

 the characters upon which P. scri/ptilis is separated are trivial in 

 the extreme. 



The Nilgiri specimens, identified by Mr. Hampson as 

 P. hoarmoides, are doubtless Guenee's P. otiosa, the description 

 of which they fit admirably. I think P. otiosa may be distinct, 

 though closely allied to P. umhricola : it is smaller, has blacker 

 costal spots on the upper surface of primaries, and the under 

 surface is creamy whitish ; the secondaries in the male being 

 almost devoid of markings. 



The P. umhricola of Walker's Catalogue has very little in 

 common with Boisduval's species. 



Polydesma otiosa. 

 Polydesma otiosa, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 442, n. 1316 (1852). 

 Alamis hrevipalpis, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1051, n. 12 

 (1857). 

 . Nilgiris and Punjab. In Coll. B. M. 



DiATENES, Guen. 

 Setida, Walk. 

 This genus is closely allied to Polydesma. 



Diatenes genda. 

 Diatenes gerula, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 443, n. 1317 (1852). 

 D. aglossoides, Walker (not Guenee), Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1043, 



n. 2 (1857). 

 Tasmania. In Coll. B. M. 



As this species is figured by Guenee (pi. 18, fig. 5), there 

 ought to have been no difficulty in correctly identifying it. 



