548 .Mr. Butler on a collection of 



interno-median area ; discoidal and submedian spots bordered 

 with pale green edged with black; discoidal area dark brown, 

 " orl:)icular " spot of the same colour, slightly oblique and 

 almost reniform ; " reniform " spot pale laky-brown with a 

 curved blackish internal stripe; submedian spot obtusely hexa- 

 gonal, laky-brown; the two central lines slender, black, opposed, 

 dentate-sinuate, not distinctly traceable above the median xem; 

 submedian line black, with white inner border bounded within 

 by sap-green and dark brown spots or jiatches, irregularly 

 dentated as in H. pisi ; the usual costal markings ; secondaries 

 pinky-brown, with diffused dusky border, enclosing an ill-define<l 

 abbreviated sinuated Avhitish streak; abdominal border broadly 

 fringed with pinky-whitish ; fringe of outer margin narrow, 

 yellowish, tipped with dark brown , body riifous-brown, varied 

 Avith ])ale greenish and Avhity-broAvn scales ; collar with the 

 usual bisinuated blackish line; wings below pale sericeous pinky- 

 broAvn, with blackish discocellular spots and a brown discal line; 

 primaries with a pale submarginal line; secondaries with an 

 indistinct greyish submarginal streak ; body Ijelow dull laky- 

 brown, pectus slightly greyish, venter with a lateral black 

 line. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



One example, slightly injured. 



23. Meterami pictiila. 



Dianthcecia pictuln, White, in Taylor's New Zealand, pi. ] , 

 fig. 3 (1855). 



The only specimen of this beautiful green and rose-colovired 

 .Noctuid Avas much broken and the No. knocked off the pin. 



XYLINIDtE. 



24. Xylina inceptw-a (No. 11). 

 Xyllna ineepfiira, Walker, Lep. Ilet. xv, p. 17;}(> (1858). 

 Two specimens, rejiresenting the exti-emes of variation. 



25. Xylinn iis:t/.<=:tr/f/a (No. 8). 

 XjiUna nstistriga, Walker, Lep. llet. xi, p. (I3(» (1857). 

 A pail-, in fairly good condition. 



