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II, 0)1 a small collection of Lepidoptera /rom the Hawaiian 

 Islands. By A. G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read February 1st, 1882.] 



Last year I received from the Rev. Thomas Blackburn a 

 letter (dated 4th July), in which he says : — " I have an 

 unexpected opportunity of sending a parcel to London 

 by the hands of a friend who is going home by the 

 overland mail this month ; so avail myself of it to send 

 you another small collection of Hawaiian Lepidoptera 

 consisting of nineteen specimens. Unfortunately of 

 most of these there is only one specimen, but they repre- 

 sent the rarities jpar excellence, as far as my experience 

 goes ; indeed of many of them I have only a single 

 specimen retained for my own collection as type. After 

 having for five years failed to get more than two or three 

 specimens, it seems little use waiting longer. If I 

 should have the good fortune to meet with a few more 

 specimens of any, I would not fail to remember your 

 needs." 



About a month later the box of specimens came to 

 hand, but the constant ingress of larger collections 

 requiring immediate attention has rendered it impossible 

 until now for me to undertake the identification of Mr. 

 Blackburn's specimens. 



The collection consists of two butterflies and twenty- 

 three moths referable in all to nineteen species, princi- 

 pally of the Micro-Lepidoptera (in Staudinger's sense). 



RHOPALOCEKA. 



1. Polyommatus hceticus (No. 170). 

 Papilio hceticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. (2), p. 789 



(1767). 

 A pair. 



" From memory I take this to be P. hceticus, but am 

 not sure. I have bred it from larvae feeding in pods of 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1882. — PART I. (APRIL.) 



