39S tHE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the little cockchafer, Rhizotrogus solstltlalis, a perfect pest, as it 

 resembled the burnets so much in its flight. 



We bade Mr. Blagg good-bye on the 12th, in the early 

 morning, and again seated ourselves in our Welsh car for 

 Pwllheli. Away we went, between hedges gay with wild roses, 

 pink and red, and here and there through clouds of honeysuckle 

 scent. At Mynfford Junction we took the narrow-gauge moun- 

 tain railway for Tan-y-Bwlch. The first experience is not 

 pleasant, as you keep wondering if you have any footing at all on 

 tejra firma, or whether the ti^ain is not a flying-machine ; but 

 you soon get accustomed to it. At Tan-y-Bwlch I parted with 

 Mr. Kerr and then went home, after a short halt at Blaenau 

 Festiniog. My boxes contained a nice series of Z. minos, and 

 all curiosity had been satisfied by an examination of the insect's 

 haunts and habits. 



Chester, August 3rd, 1893. 



NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 



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



(Continued from p. 246). 



Calliodes, Guen. 



This genus was founded for the reception of two species, an 

 African and an Australian ; principally on the character of 

 pectinated antennge. Guenee also mentions that one of them 

 has the third palpal joint very short, and the other has a 

 mere rudiment of that joint. Unfortunately there are other 

 species closely related to his C. apolliiia, but with rather longer 

 third joints to the palpi. All the Australian species differ from 

 the African in having the button-like third joint, and all of them 

 have a rounded ocellus on the primaries, instead of the spiral 

 caudate ocellus of true Calliodes. I would, therefore, propose 

 the name Euci/clomma for the Australian forms. 



Calliodes pyrula. 



Spirama pyrula, Hopffer in Peters' Eeise n. Mossambique, 

 pi. xxviii. figs. 10, 11 (1862). 



S. lucida, Felder, Eeise der Nov. Lep. iv. pi. cxiii. fig. 8. 



Tette and Natal. 



I cannot conceive the reason for renaming this species. 

 Hopffer's figure is evidently taken from a broken and faded 

 example, and Felder's from a fresh specimen ; otherwise there is 

 nothing of any importance by which to distinguish them. This 

 species and another (which we have received from Delagoa Bay) 

 undoubtedly belong to Calliodes, not to Spirama. 



