32 Mr. A. G. Butler u}i a small collection of 



what ajjpears to be a Melilotus. The following is a 

 description of the larva : — 



" Obscure olive-green, pretty thickly sprinkled with 

 short hairs (much the appearance of a bristly surface 

 badly shaved) ; dorsal and subdorsal lines and the 

 region included obscurelj^ rosy ; head testaceous, bearing 

 a black V-shaped mark, which points backwards ; the 

 rosy markings vary in intensity, as also the ground 

 colour ; legs of the ground colour ; spiracles white. 

 Onisciform." — T. B. 



HETEROCERA. 



Before proceeding to the moths it may be useful to 

 record the probability that Wallengren's Anthcecia injiata 

 (Wien. Ent. Monatschr. 4, p. 172), is a Heliocheilus 

 (Felder) ; it is said to occur at Honolulu, but examples 

 have not yet been sent home by Mr. Blackburn. 



LEUCANIID^. 



2. Lcucania extranea (No. 167). 



Leucania extranea, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 77, n. 104 

 (1852). 



The male example now sent is very different from 

 typical specimens of the species, the primaries being 

 less acute at apex, of a deeper colour, and crossed by 

 three ill-defined greyish bands, but the ordinary markings 

 are all present and well defined. Until, therefore, I am 

 able to examine and compare carefully the whole of our 

 very extensive series of specimens referred to this species, 

 and can thereby decide whether they represent one 

 widely distributed and variable species, or a number of 

 allied geographical species, it will be premature to 

 regard the Hawaiian form as distinct. Mr. Blackburn 

 speaks of it thus : — " Apparently rare, but widely distri- 

 buted ; I have taken it at light in Honolulu, and at rest 

 on a tree-trunk in Hawaii." 



GONOPTERIDiE. 



3. Gonitis hawaiiensis, n. s. (No. 15). 



Primaries sericeous reddish coffee-colour, striolated 

 with grey, and irrorated towards the base and on the 

 disc with black atoms ; tht- external border limited 



