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ON HETEROCEEOUS LEPIBOPTERA COLLECTED in the HAWAIIAN 



ISLANDS BY THE Rev. T. BLACKBURN. 



BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The following is an account o£ two small series of moths for- 

 warded by the Rev. T. Blackburn during the past year. 



The entire collection represents fifteen species, of which ten are 

 new to science ; this unusual percentage of novelties is probably due 

 to the wholly unworked localities in which most of them have been 

 obtained. 



Fortunately, in the present instance, collector's notes of consider- 

 able interest accompany the insects. 



LEUCANIID^. 



Leucania photophila, n. sp. (No. 60). 



Greyish whity-brown, sericeous ; primaries with seven triangular marginal black 

 dots ; an arched discal series of seven or eight epineural black dots ; secondaries 

 slightly greyer in tint than the primaries, with the outer margin irregularly white 

 from the radial vein to the anal angle ; the veins terminating in indistinct dusky 

 dots ; fringe white ; abdomen whitish, tinted with yellow towards the anal extremity ; 

 under-surface of the wings sericeous white ; primaries with a marginal series of six or 

 seven black dots : body below sordid whitish ; tarsi grey banded with white at the 

 extremities of the joints. Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 5 lines. 



" Occurs about Honolulu, generally flying to light in the evening, 

 much more rarely than L. dislocatar- — T. B. 



NOCTUIDtE. 



Ageotis suffusa, "W. V. (No. 55). 



Oahu. 



This species did not come in previous consignments, it is perfectly 

 distinct from the insect noted in E. M. M., xiv, p. 1S5, which is 

 identical with the following — - 



Ageotis, sp. n. (No. 11). 



A single example ; it arrived in six or seven pieces, being 

 apparently rotten from damp : although I have succeeded in patching 

 it together, it is not fit to be made into a type : in marking it some- 

 what resembles Spoelotis. 



Ageotis AEENitouAifs, n. sp. (No. 7). 



Silver-grey, shining ; primaries with blackish costal margin, interrupted by three 

 white dots towards the apex : discoidal cell smoky-brown, excepting at the base, 

 discoidal spots smoky-brown with white border edged with black, the " orbicular " 

 spot pyriforra, the " reniform " semicircular, its front margin being also bisinuate ; 

 median vein white ; a large, fusiform, black-edged, sub-median, smoky-brown patch, 



