272 May, 



flecked with gi'ey ; abdomen pale sordid ochreous : primaries below sliining leaden- 

 grej ; the costal margin, internal border, and base of fringe white ; secondaries pale 

 stramincons ; apex irrorated with grey ; three apical, marginal, angular, blackish 

 liturffi ; fringe at apex tipped with grey : body below white, palpi grey. 



Expanse of wings, 85 lines. 



" Flies by day over flowers in hot sunsliine ; Maui." — T. B. 

 Allied to M. ornitliopteralis, but with considerably shorter palpi, 

 and altogether much smaller. 



LARENTIID^. 



Labentia insularis, n. sp. (No. 63). •• 



Primaries silvery-white, densely irrorated with sooty-black, the base and a broad 

 irregular oblique belt of the usual form sooty-black, traversed by nixmerous parallel, 

 zig-zag jet-black lines ; discocellulars jet-black ; a costal sub-apical sooty-black spot, 

 bounded externally by an undulated white hue ; a regularly sinuated sub-marginal 

 blackish line, alternately spotted with black and white (the white spots being placed 

 upon the veins, and the black spots between them) ; a marginal series of jet-black 

 spots in pairs ; fringe grey, traversed by a .blackish line ; secondaries silver-grey, 

 with a feeble pearly lusti-e ; a central, irregular, slightly darker but indistinct belt ; 

 marginal black spots and fringe as in primaries : body grey, flecked with black ; 

 posterior margins of the abdominal segments spotted with black and edged with 

 white : under-surface silver-grey, wings with slightly darker basal area and broad 

 central belt traversed by wavy pale lines ; discooellular spots black. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 5 lines. 



Seems to come nearest to L. Kollariaria, but, excepting in struc- 

 ture, more nearly resembles Petrophora prunnta var. nuhilata of 

 Packard's G-eometrites : the species, according to the Rev. T. Black- 

 burn, " occurs sparingly on Haleakala, elevation 900 — 1000 feet." 



" I succeeded in capturing only two specimens ; and expense, 

 labour, and time involved in visiting the locality are so great, as to 

 render a repetition of my visit improbable."— T. B. 



PSEUDOCOEEMIA PALUDICOLA, n. sp. (No. 58). 



S . Primaries above varying from golden-brown to shining fuliginous, speckled 

 with black, crossed almost in the middle by an irregular dusky belt, the inner mar- 

 gin of which is bisinuated, and the outer margin multisinuate and sub-angulated, 

 both margins marked upon the veins by black dots ; reniform spot well marked? 

 blackish ; indications of a dusky line limiting the external area ; a marginal series 

 of black spots : secondaries pale pinky-brown, frequently with a central undulated 

 series of blackish spots : body coloured in correspondence with the wings : under- 

 surface pale shining sandy-brown, with the internal areas of the wings (particularly 

 the primaries) more or less suffused with silvery-grey ; the whole sui'face irrorated 

 with black or grey ; the discocellular, and a more or less extended discal series of 

 spots, black. Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 1 — 2 lines. 



$ . Larger, the wings more elongated, the groimd colour of the primaries lighter 

 or darker fuUginous ; the central belt indistinct : otherwise as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 4 — 5^ lines. 



" The dark form is the ordinary one. I bred a lot from pupcC, so 



know the lighter form (of which I got three) is pretty certain a 



