1885.] 197 



tinuation of it a fifth streak runs out on the costa, and becomes white 

 in the costal cilia ; along the lower half of the hind margin one sees 

 a sixth streak. 



" Posterior-wings, all the cilia and under-side very dark grey- 

 brown, rather shining. Abdomen, belly and legs iron-black ; the 

 hinder tibiae with two white spots. The head is flat and broad, the 

 thorax compressed, stifily formed and every thing smooth-scaled ,* the 

 wings are pointed -lanceolate and have very long cilia. 



" In Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue the species is called 

 Leuwenhoelcella, and Linnaeus is given as the author. According to 

 "Werneburg (Schmetterlinge alterer Autore), Linnaeus has first de- 

 scribed it in the 2nd edition of the Fauna Suecica, No. 1400, under 

 the name of Loevenhoekella, but afterwards, in the 12th edition of the 

 Systema Naturae, as Leuvenhoekella. If the earlier reference be cor- 

 rect, then would the insect bear the name of Pancalia LoevenhoeJceUay 

 although Linnaeus had notoriously wished to name it in honour of our 

 great Antony van Leeuwenhoeck. 



" So far as I know the larva is still undiscovered. 



"The genus Pancalia is not yet rich in exotic species. None are 

 yet known to me, and as to the stellaria from Bogota figured in the 

 " Novara Eeise," II, 2, pi. 140, f. 10, I should doubt, from the query 

 after the generic name, whether it be truly a Pancalia. 



" Rotterdam : January 28th, 1877." 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF FODINOIBEA (A GENUS OF 

 MOTHS) FROM THE BETSILEO COUNTRY, MADAGASCAR. 



BY ARTHUR G. BUTLP]R, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The species here described has long been in the Museum collec- 

 tion ; it is allied to F. Staudingeri, Saalmiiller, and probably also to 

 *' Caryatis'' ruhriceps, Mabille. 



The genus Fodinoidea is referred by Saalmiiller to the ArctiidcG ; 

 with which family its colouring and the clothing of the body would 

 incline one to place it : the natural position of the genus is, however, 

 undoubtedly next to Colhusa euclidica (a generic form close to Fodina^ 

 from which it chiefly differs in the greater length of the discoidal 

 lells of the wings, and the more strongly pectinated antennae of the 

 male ; the veins are all similarly emitted from the cells ; the palpi, 

 bowever, are broader, and have a large basal article, the first and 

 second articles being, in fact, of equal size, and the legs are decidedly 

 nore slender than in Colhusa : the pattern and coloration of the two 

 ^enera are much the same. Colhusa is a West African genus. 



