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Catoptria ccecimaculana again occurred in the quarries, especially 

 among knapweed, but not commonly. It has a curious habit in the 

 day time of sitting on bits o£ grey limestone on the ground, upon 

 which it is hardly possible to distinguish it. 



Catoptria expalliclana, besides in tbe clover-field, occurred on the 

 railway bank, and in the quarries, but only casually, and supplying no 

 indication of its food-plant or habits, except that of flying when it is 

 hardly possible to see it in the increasing darkness. 



Eupoecilia pallidana. — Two specimens occurred on a sloping cliff, 

 but in so exposed a place that the wind doubtless prevented it from 

 flying in any numbers. 



Eupoecilia flaviciliana. — A small Tortrix, netted over a sloping 

 bank late at night, and boxed "on suspicion," proved to be this species. 

 Pressing business, and very pressing weather prevented it from being 

 further looked for. The capture of this lovely little rarity was an 

 unexpected treat. 



Pembroke : January, 18'77. 



NOTES ON ME. BUXTON'S EASTEEN BUTTEEFLIES, WITH DESCEIP- 

 TION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PORITIA. 



BY W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.S. 



Mr. E. C. Buxton, who has just returned from a twelve months' 

 hunting excursion in the east, in Sumatra and Java, has brought with 

 him 2000 butterflies, remarkable chiefly in showing how barren those 

 countries are in anything that is new. The collection, nevertheless, 

 contains some fine and rare species and in beautiful condition. 

 Amongst them Papilio Caunus, and a fine series of P. Leueothoe, the 

 rare Cyresiis Periander, Eurijtela Castehiaui, Melanitis Penanga of 

 Westwood, which was not in the Wallace collection, and is quite dis- 

 tinct from my figure of Penanga to which Mr. Wallace gave the name 

 of Smnatrana. There are two new species of Amhlypodia, a new 

 Poritia, which I describe below, and some fine new species of Jlesperia^ 



PoRiTiA Pediada, n. sp. 



Upper-side: female, dark brown, slightly tinted with dull blue; 

 outer margin of the posterior wing dentate. 



Under-side : red-brown ; both wings crossed transversely by two 

 bands of lilac-white, one near the middle, the other sub-marginal. 

 Posterior wing with a short band of the same colour between the 

 others, and a sub-marginal line of white. 



Exp., Ixo inch. Hah. : Singapore. 



Oatlands, Wejbridge : Febriiari/, 1877. 



