v.m>.] . 257 



femora enormously incrassate ; hind tibise short, exceedingly stout, thickening out- 

 wards, their outer face set with scattered tubercles, the flattened apical portion 

 smooth and nearly encircled by a row of blunt, stout teeth. 



AywpA.— Head sculptured and shaped very much as in the adult, but without 

 ocelli ; pronotuni short, and, like the scutellum, without transverse wrinkles ; legs 

 as in the adult, except that the anterior and intermediate tarsi are only 2-3ointed. 



Length (to apex of the membrane), 9 — 11 ; breadth of the pronotum, 4f — 6, 

 of the elytra, 5^ — 6^ mm. 



Hab. : Guatemala, Capetillo {Rodriguez). 



Apparently a common insect where it occurs in Guatemala. 

 Larger and more robust than S. castaneus, the elytra distinctly punc- 

 tured ; the posterior tibise with stouter and blunter teeth (Perty says 

 " denticulis coronata ") encircling the flattened apical portion. I am 

 unable to distinguish the sexes by external characters. 



Horsell, Woking : 



October, 1900. 



NEW HAWAIIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.Z.S. 



Amongst some Hawaiian Ziepidoftera recently sent me for deter- 

 mination by the Stadtisches Museum fiir Naturkunde of Bremen were 

 examples of the three following new species, which I have been 

 requested to describe ; the types are in the Museum. They were 

 collected by Professor Schanisland. Two of these species are very 

 interesting, being the only Lepidoptera obtained from the little island 

 of Laysan. This is a coral island, crowning a submerged volcanic 

 peak, and lies 800 miles W.N.W. of Kauai, the northernmost island 

 of the main Hawaiian group, but is connected with it by a series of 

 several similar little islets or reefs, showing the former existence of a 

 more considerable development of land in this direction. Herr Alfken, 

 of the Bremen Museum, informs me that six birds are endemic in the 

 island, but three reptiles are identical with Hawaiian forms; two 

 endemic plants are nearly related to Hawaiian species, the rest iden- 

 tical. The two Lepidoptera are of undoubted Hawaiian affinity, but 

 apparently not very close to any described species. 



Ageotis eeemioides, n. sp. 



$ $ . 3G — 48 mm. Head and thorax browiiish-ochreous, neck often yellowish 

 tinged. Antennae in $ bidentate, with triangular teeth. Abdomen in $ rather 

 elongate. Fore-wings varying from dull light brownish-ochreous to fuscous ; first 

 and second lines sometimes faintly darker, slender, usually obsolete ; orbicular rather 



