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Ludovicae Ulricas, and characterized by the words ** Alse siLpra 

 omnes simul griseae, fusco-nebulosae," represents the common 

 American type, figured by Cramer (Pap. Exot. ii. pi. clxix. a, b), 

 as Pkalcena odora and (pi. clxx. a, b) as P. agarista; the latter 

 name will stand. 



Eamphia, Guen. 

 Ramijhia alhizona. 

 S Noctua (Erebus) alhizona, Latreille in Humb. et Bonpl. 



Eev. ii. p. 136, n. 160, pi. 43, figs. 5, 6. 

 (^ Var. Ramphia evinga, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 143, n. 1527. 

 Brujas hasicincta, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1251, n. 3. 

 ? Ramphia amarygma, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 144, n. 1529. 

 Theresopolis, Para, Venezuela, Yucatan. In Coll. B. M. 



Tavia, Walk. 

 Tavia nyctei^ina. 

 Polydesma nycterina, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. 109, 



n. 2, pi. 13, fig. 6. 

 2'avia instruens, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1275, n. 1 (1857). 

 Madagascar and Congo. In Coll. B. M. 

 M. Guenee must have wrongly identified Boisduval's species, 

 or he could never have allowed this species to remain in Poly- 

 desma ; the enormous development of the third joint of the palpi 

 and the form of the primaries at once distinguish it from all the 

 Polydesmidse. 



Sypna, Guen. 

 This genus is closely allied to the preceding. 



Sypna ruhrifascia. 

 Sypna ruhrifascia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 24. 

 S.fraterna, Moore, I. c, p. 25. 

 Sikkim. Type in Coll. B. M. 



(To be continued.) 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPOETS. 



Spuing Lepidoptera: — 



Cambridgeshire. — I captured a nice specimen of Euchelia jacobacB on the 

 wing, near Cambridge, on tlie 16th April; and my brother took another on 

 the 23rd. I look Demas coryti from a beech trunk on the 25th; and also 

 Lilhosia aureola. Arctia menthastri was out still earlier ; I found a freshly- 

 emerged specimen on the 14th. — Maurice White ; Jesus College, 

 Cambridge, April 26, 1893. 



Carmarthenshire. — The following notes, taken during March and April 

 in this district, may be of value for comparison with others. The weather 

 throughout has been so exceptionally tine, and also warm at times, that of 

 course the season must be considered an early one for insects. During 



