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from the normal red-brown colouring to a bluish slate colour, 

 most marked on the primaries. 



Mamestra aterrima, Walk., belongs to this genus. 



HYPOGEAMMIDtE. 



I think it doubtful whether this is really a distinct family from 

 the preceding. 



Calliscotus howreyi, Butl., from Jamaica, is clearly a Geometrid, 

 and belongs to the genus Pterocypha, H.-Sch. 



Hypogramma damonia. 

 Phalcena damonia, Cram., Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 324, figs, e, c 



(1872). 

 P. capensis?, Cramer, I.e., ii. pi. 167, fig. c (1779). 

 P. sulima, Stoll, Suppl. Cram., pi. 40, figs. 5, 5c (1791). 

 South America. In Coll. B. M. 



There can be little doubt that Cramer's figure of his Phalcena 

 capensis was taken from a bad specimen of this species ; but it 

 would be preposterous to call an American species capensis. 



C^NiPETA, Hubn. 

 Canipeta serapis. 



Phalcena serapis. Cram., Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 396, fig. f (1782). 



Ccenipeta lobuligera, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 32, n. 1360 (1852). 



C. aniloba, Guenee, I. c, p. 33, n. 1361 (1852). 



C. columbina, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, p. 892 (1865). 



C. lilacina, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 44, n. 62. 



South America. In Coll. B. M. 



When I described the Amazon examples, I had little idea of 

 the variability of the Noctiiites. My notes on this species show 

 how little the named forms must have differed, since their 

 authors confounded them together. 



(To be continued.) 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPOETS. 



The Season of 1892 at Ringwood. — Insects have not been so 

 abundant for at least ten years, here in the south, as they were last year. 

 Captures at sugar and ivy were much above the average ; and some good 

 things have fallen to my lot in consequence. I may add that from March 

 to the middle of November insects were plentiful. Amongst Rhopalocera we 

 have certainly had an immigration of at least three species ; of Colias edusa 

 and Vanessa cardui there seems little doubt, and I think the same holds 

 good of V. atalanta, although there is not much said of this species in 

 respect to migration. Every season I collect all the larvae of V. atalanta 

 that I can find for varieties. During 1890 and '91 they were local and not 

 above the average, but in 1892 1 found them in immense numbers every- 



