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Diatenes aglossoides^ 

 Diateiies aglossoides, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 443, n. 1318 (1852), 

 ? Homoptera costalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1072, n. 43 



(1857). 

 $ Setida quadrisignata, Walker, I.e., xv. p. 1853, n. 1 (1858). 

 North and South-East Australia. In Coll. B. M. 

 I think it highly probable that this is only a smaller form of 

 D. gerida ; and it is possible that D. chalybescens may be only a 

 slight variety. Fresh examples of D. aglossoides are of the 

 colours described by Guenee as characteristic of his D. chaly- 

 bescens ; but the latter appears to have one or more extra lines 

 across the primaries. 



Ericeia, Walk. 

 Ghya, Walk. 

 Ericeia inangidata. 

 Hidodes inangidata, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 210, n. 1612 (1852). 

 Ericeia sobria, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1089, n. 1 (1857). 

 Remigia congressa, Walker, I. c, xiv. p. 1510, n. 20 (1857). 

 R. optativa, Walker, I. c, n. 22 (1857). 

 R. pertendens, Walker, I.e., p. 1512, n. 24 (1857). 

 R. congregata, Walker, I. c, xv. p. 1847 (1858). 

 R. optatwa, Walker, I.e., p. 1848 (1858). 

 R. amanda. Walker, I. c. 



Girpa aliena, Walker, I.e., p. 1849, n. 1 (1858). 

 Remigia comitata, Walker, I.e., Suppl. 3, p. 1018 (1865). 

 Hidodes umbrosa, Walker, Char. Undescr. Lep. p. 91 (1869). 

 Girpa fraterna, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 94, pi. 156, fig. 5. 

 Asia, Africa, and Australia. In Coll. B. M. 



Ericeia eriophora. 

 The synonymy of this species occurs in full in Moore's 

 * Lepidoptera of Ceylon.' 



Ericeia maxima. 



Girpa maxima, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1886, p. 410, n. 49. 



G. carnea, Butler, I.e., p. 411, n. 50. 



Vavao, Friendly Islands. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Judging by the midoubted variability of the species in this 

 genus, it is no longer possible to regard E. maxima and carnea 

 as distinct species. 



Pericyma, H.-Sch. 



Staudinger gives this name priority over Alamis, Guen., and, 

 so far as date of publication goes, he is correct in so doing ; but 

 Pericyma is not characterized in such a manner that it can be 

 recognized :— the characters given are, " Border of all the wings 



