270 [May, 



attenuated towards the base; two similarly coloured patches at the base of the 



median interspaces, and a third on the last sub-costal interspace ; two black dashes 



on the radial interspaces, and a third in the sub-apical furca of the sub-costal vein ; 



an irregular smoky-brown marginal border, its inner edge zigzag ; a marginal series 



of black spots, followed at the base of the fringe by a slender whitish line ; 



secondaries slightly brownish, with white fringe ; antennsje, crest and front of collar 



dark grey ; centre of collar occupied by a curved white line, back of collar brownish ; 



thorax longitudinally streaked at the sides with brownish, and with a blackish dorsal 



crest ; abdomen brownish, clothed at the base with white hair : under-surface white ; 



primaries sordid, the discoidal area grey; internal border opaline ; a series of blackish 



marginal dots ; secondaries with a broad silvery-greyish external border, limited 



internally by a sub-angulated grey stripe : discoidal cell terminating in a small black 



spot ; palpi, tibia;, and tarsi dusky ; anal tuft pale testaceous. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 5 — 7 lines. 



(J, ?. "Island of Maui, flying by day on sandhills near the 

 sea."— T. B. 



This species belongs to the A. jactiJifera grou]), its -nearest aWy 

 is apparently A<jrotis munda of Australia, but it differs very greatly 

 even from this species, at first sight seeming more nearly to resemble 

 Pelder's " JlLamestra maori?'''' 



HYDEOCAMPID^. 



Oligostigma cueta, n. sj). 



Closely allied to O. ohitalis from Australia, with which it agrees in marking, 

 but smaller with much shorter primaries : white, the body crossed by black-edged 

 orange belts ; wings with slender black marginal line, close to which is an orange 

 stripe ; a sub-marginal black line ; a black-edged orange discal belt ; primaries with 

 a second more slender stripe, the upper half of which is almost wholly orange, and 

 widely convex, so as to cross the disc just beyond the cell ; a black discocellular dot ; 

 two black oblique stripes across the basal area and parallel to the lower half of the 

 inner discal stripe, the outer of these two varied with orange ; secondaries crossed 

 by two black lines, the outer one of which is abruptly elbowed so as to join the discal 

 belt near the middle : under-surface paler than the iipper-surface. 



Expanse of wings, 6^ lines. 



" Not uncommon about grassy streams in mountain valleys, when 

 such can be found, and that is seldom." — T. B. 



BOTTDID^. 

 BoTYS ACCEPTA, Butlor (No. 17). 



A small example of this apparently common species. 

 BoTTS CONTIJTUATALIS (Salhia confinuafalis,W\\gv.) (Nos. 21, 22), 



"About the commonest Lcpidopteron here." — T. B. 



"Wallengren's description of this species must have been taken 

 from a rubbed example. I therefore append a more complete de- 

 scription : — 



