﻿Lejyidoptera 
  collected 
  in 
  Madeira. 
  221 
  

  

  Of 
  this 
  well-marked 
  species 
  I 
  have 
  but 
  one 
  specimen, 
  

   which 
  was 
  taken 
  high 
  up 
  about 
  the 
  fir-tree 
  limit. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  worthy 
  of 
  remark 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Eujnthecics 
  at 
  

   present 
  known 
  from 
  these 
  islands, 
  both 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  

   belong 
  to 
  the 
  subgenus 
  Gymnoscelis. 
  

  

  This 
  completes 
  my 
  list 
  of 
  Macro-Lepidoptera 
  (the 
  

   TineincB, 
  &c., 
  being 
  as 
  yet 
  unnamed, 
  will, 
  I 
  hope, 
  be 
  

   catalogued 
  in 
  a 
  later 
  paper). 
  There 
  does 
  not 
  appear 
  to 
  

   be 
  anything 
  to 
  call 
  for 
  special 
  remark 
  beyond 
  what 
  has 
  

   already 
  been 
  done 
  ; 
  there 
  is, 
  however, 
  one 
  point 
  that 
  

   has 
  struck 
  me 
  in 
  looking 
  over 
  the 
  collection. 
  Besides 
  

   the 
  tendency 
  to 
  great 
  variation 
  there 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  decided 
  

   tendency 
  to 
  assume 
  a 
  pink 
  or 
  reddish 
  hue. 
  In 
  the 
  South 
  

   and 
  West 
  African 
  fauna 
  I 
  am 
  informed 
  that 
  this 
  tone 
  of 
  

   colour 
  is 
  also 
  prevalent, 
  in 
  which 
  case 
  it 
  is 
  interesting 
  to 
  

   note 
  that 
  in 
  these 
  Atlantic 
  islands 
  we 
  find 
  the 
  meeting- 
  

   place, 
  if 
  I 
  may 
  so 
  call 
  it, 
  of 
  the 
  Palsearctic, 
  Ethiopian, 
  

   and 
  Nearctic 
  insect 
  fauna 
  ; 
  of 
  course, 
  the 
  great 
  majority 
  

   of 
  insects 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  former, 
  to 
  which 
  region 
  they 
  

   (the 
  islands) 
  undoubtedly 
  belong, 
  but 
  the 
  others 
  are 
  also 
  

   represented 
  by 
  a 
  similarity 
  in 
  colour, 
  or 
  by 
  the 
  Lepi- 
  

   doptera 
  themselves. 
  

  

  Explanation 
  of 
  Plate 
  XII. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1. 
  Rhodocera 
  cleojocitra, 
  v. 
  inaderensis, 
  Feld. 
  

  

  la. 
  ,, 
  ,, 
  ,, 
  under 
  surface. 
  

  

  2. 
  Satyrus 
  senicle, 
  v. 
  'inaderensis, 
  Baker. 
  

  

  2 
  a. 
  ,, 
  ,, 
  under 
  surface. 
  

  

  3. 
  Hecatera 
  maderce, 
  Baker. 
  

  

  4. 
  Nonagria 
  sacchari, 
  Woll. 
  

  

  5. 
  Zonosoma 
  maderensis, 
  Baker 
  (banded 
  form). 
  

  

  6. 
  Hemeroiohila 
  madercB, 
  Baker. 
  

  

  7. 
  Boarmia 
  WoUastoni, 
  Baker 
  (typical 
  J). 
  

  

  8. 
  Euholia 
  7'itpicola, 
  Woll. 
  

  

  9. 
  Coremia 
  centro-strigaria, 
  Woll. 
  

  

  