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Show 634 MR. w. S C H A U S O N WALKER'S [June 16 3. On Walker's American Types of Lepidoptera in the Oxford University Museum. By W . S C H A U S , F.Z.S. [Eeceived April 30, 1896.] The following notes on Walker's American types in the Oxford University Museum are to be followed by others, wherein the complete synonymy will be given of many of the species, and references will also be made to those species which as yet remain unidentified. My special thanks are due to Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., for the trouble he took in selecting the American Moths from the Hope Collection, and sending them family by family to tbe British Museum to be compared with the collections there and with my own collection; and to Mr. G. F. Hampson for his untiring kindness and assistance. Those species marked with an asterisk are represented in m y own collection; those of which I do uot possess specimens, and which are not in the British Museum either, have been figured in duplicate, one set of figures being placed in the Entomological Department of that Museum. The species described by Walker in parts 27-30 of his Catalogue, and in the corresponding portions of the Supplement, as being in » Coll. Sauuders " never formed part of the Hope Collection of the Oxford Museum, but have lately been purchased by the British Museum, where the types are now to be found. The references given refer to Walker's ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum.' YOL. III. P. 775. *Norape puella described from the Fry coll. is now in the Saunders coll., and is the same as Archyluspectoralis, Walk. VOL. IV. P. 801. Sarsina purptirascens. I have not yet been able to find the type. P. 895. *Barala fcdcata=Lonomia submacula, Walk. P. 957. Isychagraphafloccosa. Not identified. VOL. V. P. 1046. *Naprep>a camelinerdes is a distinct species belonging to the Notodontidae. P. 1115. Laruma heterogenea is a distinct species, the genus being the same as Hydrias. P. 1152. Nesara apicalis belongs to the genus Ocha, Walk. P. 1155. *Pamea excavata and Pamea notata are the sexes of one species. P. 1155. *Pamea vittata belongs to the gemis Carihara, Walk. P. 1170. Rosema deolis is not Cramer's species, and I therefore propose the name of R. waTkevi for it; the species is well described by Walker. |