130 [June, 



As I have already done in the case of Clmbex, T must at present 

 ask to be excused from discussing the British species of Lophyrus. I 

 have never collected in Scotland, which seems to be their head- 

 quarters ; and all the specimens I possess, except a few of pini, are 

 foreigners. Under these circumstances I think my readers will lose 

 nothing if I pass on at once to the groups with whose British repre- 

 sentatives I am more familiar. In the next paper, therefore, I hope 

 to commence dealing with the Nematids, whose discrimination seems 

 at present to be found very difficult by most English collectors. I 

 cannot hope to remove these difficulties altogether, but I may perhaps 

 be able to diminish them, mainly by presenting to my readers the 

 results arrived at by Herr Konow in his latest researches, so far as they 

 concern species known to me as British. 



NEW HAWAIIAN L E P I D P T E It A. 

 BY E. METRTCK, B.A., F.E.8, 



The five following new species were included amongst some 

 insects taken by Mr. R. C. L. Perkins whilst collecting on his own 

 account (not on behalf of the British Association Committee) in the 

 island of Molokai, and sent to me for determination. 



Htpenodes leptoxantha, n. sp. 



$. 18 mm. Read and thorax dai'k fuscous, irregularly mixed with pale 

 yellowish. Palpi 7. Antenna moderately bipectinated, towards apex filiform. 

 Fore-wings as in H. epichaica ; dark fuscous, with some fine scattered pale yellowish 

 scales ; lines very slender, pale yellow, subbasal inwardly oblique, first angulated 

 near costa, second forming a wide quadrangular loop outward between -^ and f ; 

 several yellow dots on costa posteriorly. Hind-tvings dark fuscous. 



One specimen, Molokai, at 4500 feet, in February. Probably 

 most allied to H. epielialca, having shorter and broader wings than the 

 other five Hawaiian species of the genus, and longer palpi even 

 than epichaica, from which it differs obviously by the much finer 

 yellow lines, and dark fuscous hind-wings. 



Hymenia exodias, 71. sp, 

 $ . 24 mm. Head dai'k fuscous mixed with ochreous-whitish, back of crown 

 ochreous-white. Palpi dark fuscous, second joint with upper f ochreous-white 

 except fuscous apex. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental 

 margins white. Fore-wings with costa obviously sinuate, termen waved, obliquely 

 bowed ; dark fuscous ; dorsal extremity of first line whitish ; a transverse-oblong 

 discal spot indicated by whitish lateral margins, resting beneath on angle of second 

 line ; second line sharply marked, thick, ochreous-white, rising from ^ of costa 



