NOTES ON THK SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 293 



Eucyclomma castalia. 

 Bomhyx castalia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 416, n. 31 (1793). 

 Calliodes saturatior, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1318, n. 3 



(1857). 

 Moreton Bay, &c. Types in Coll. B. M. 

 Without examining the type in the Banksian collection, it 

 would not have been possible to decide that the above were 

 synonymous. 



Spirama, Guen. 

 S'pirama 7'etorta. 

 PhalcBiia retorta, Linneus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. ii. p. 376. 

 Spiramia (sic) cohcBrens, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1321, n. 6. 

 India, Ceylon, Java, Burma, Japan. In Coll. B. M. 

 The supposed female of my S. simplieior belongs also to this 

 species ; the true S. simplieior, ? , is much nearer to that sex of 

 S. japonica. 



Spirama simplieior. 

 Spirama simplieior, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 198, 



n. 87. 

 S. confusa, Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. vii. p. 78, pi. cxxxii. 



figs. 6-8 (1889). 

 India and Japan. In Coll. B. M. 



The type, <? , of ^. simplieior, from Japan, is rather smaller 

 than those of S. confusa from India ; but we have Indian 

 examples of the latter which appear to differ in no constant 

 characters from the former. The type of S. simplieior, ? , as 

 already noted, was that sex of S. retorta. 



Spirama jincliuena. 

 Spirama jincliuena, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser, 5, 



vol. xi. p. 115, n. 28 (1883). 

 S. incequalis, Butler, I.e., p. 116, n. 29 (1883). 

 Corea and Chekiang. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Spirama triloba. 



Spirama triloba, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 197, n. 1595 (1852). 



Silhet, Dharmsala, and Nilgiris. In Coll. B. M. 



In spite of differences of pattern on both surfaces, I now 

 believe that my S. 7'osacea, from Dharmsala, must be an aberrant 

 form of this species. It is also probable, from the fact that 

 Guenee's type of S. triloba was from Java, that his S. mollis 

 (also a female, the type of which we possess), from the same 

 locality, is a further development of the same species. 



(To be continued.) 



