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Sepia-brown, scarcely shining ; wings crossed by a nearly straight, internally 

 black-edged white stripe, slightly sinuous on the primaries, and continued inwards 

 to a short distance along the inner margin ; discocellulars black ; external border 

 greyish, an almost marginal narrow black stripe, the extreme margin also very 

 slenderly blackish ; fringe pale, white in secondaries : primaries with two more or 

 less prominent, divergent, whitish, longitudinal streaks, the upper one just above the 

 median vein, from the emission of its first branch to the black edge of the discal 

 stripe, the lower one from the base to near the middle of the intemo-median inter- 

 space : abdomen with white edges to the segments : under-surface pale sericeous 

 greyish-brown, wings crossed by an inconspicuous paler stripe corresponding with the 

 white stripe of the upper-surface : fringe of palpi white, legs sometimes white below, 



body occasionally whitish with pure white segmental bars ; sides of palpi black. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 1 — 3 lines. 



I haTe founded this description upon fonr tolerably fresh ex- 

 amples ; one of these has the ground-colour of the primaries rather 

 more rufous than the secondaries, but is in other respects perfectly- 

 typical : the species, as might have been supposed from Wallengren's 

 description, is quite unlike any form of Salhia, and is evidently allied 

 to B. accepta. 



BoTTS DEMAEATALis, Walker (No. 19). 



" Very local, occurs in high mountain localities, five or six miles 

 from Honolulu."— T. B. 



BOTTS LOCALIS, U. Sp. (No. 61). 



Greyish-fuliginous, irrorated with black scales : wings with whitish external 

 border and fringe, extreme margin and a submarginal series of almost confluent 

 dots, black ; primaries with a black dot in the cell, and slightly concave discocellular 

 line ; two slightly wavy blackish lines from the median vein to the inner margin j a 

 diffused, arched, dark, discal streak ; secondaries with an oblique, dark brown 

 discocellular line ; an undulated and sub-angulated, dark brown discal line, bounded 

 externally by a pale diffused belt : posterior edges of the abdominal segments pale, 

 but not white ; under-surface altogether paler, palpi with white fringe, tibiae and 

 tarsi whitish ; the discal line of secondaries not bounded by a pale belt as on the 

 upper-surface. Expanse of wings, 9^ hnes. 



"A very local species ; Oahu." — T. B. 



Mectna exigua, n. sp. (No. 62). 



Primaries white, densely irrorated with black ; two ill-defined, white-edged, 

 black basal spots; a trisinuated, white-edged, oblique black line just before the 

 middle ; a second zig-zag, white-edged, black line limiting the external border, which 

 is blackish, crossed by a sub-marginal series of white-bordered black dots ; outer 

 margin grey ; a marginal series of black dots ; fringe grey, traversed by a dusky 

 line ; secondaries ochreous, with a broad, binsinuated, external, black-brown border, 

 which emits a streak along the median vein to the base ; external half of abdominal 

 border also blackish ; fringe ochreous, tipped with blackish : head and thorax white, 



