86 Mr. A. G. Butler on a small collcctinn of 



Mr. Blackburn notes this as a female, and suggests 

 that it may be that sex of No. 155 ; but, although only 

 one rather worn example has come to hand, I cannot 

 think that it has anything to do with that insect ; apart 

 from its very different pattern, it appears to me to be 

 itself a male ; at any rate it has as well developed an 

 anal tuft as in manj' males among the Pi/rales. 



I am not satisfied that I have done right in referring 

 this species to Metasia, for, although the structure 

 appears to be very nearly, if not quite, the same, the 

 style of coloration is nearer to that of Stenia ; if, how- 

 ever, it were placed in that section of the family it would 

 have to form the type of a new genus on account of its 

 short palpi, and, in order satisfactorily to describe its 

 characters, it would be necessary to have a reallj^ good 

 specimen. 



7. Scotomera hydrophila, n. s. (No. 163). 



Pale fuliginous-brown ; primaries irrorated with black 

 scales ; crossed at basal third by an angular almost 

 3-shaped brown-edged pale stripe, and half-way between 

 the cell and apex by a simply angulated stripe, minutely 

 zigzag throughout, and edged with dark brown ; between 

 these two stripes is a pale zigzag oblique line bounding 

 three small black spots, the uppermost of which' is on 

 the costal margin and the two others at the end of the 

 cell ; the costal border between the oblique line and the 

 discal stripe is pale (whity-brown), and a spot of the 

 same colour is on the costal border near apex ; a sub- 

 marginal series of externally whitish-edged black dots, 

 followed by a blackish marginal line ; fringe whitish, 

 traversed by a grey stripe ; secondaries paler than 

 primaries, with black marginal line ; frmge broader than 

 on primaries, but similarly coloured ; primaries below 

 dark shining grey, with the interno-basal half white ; 

 costal border streaked with white ; a submarginal series 

 of blackish dots, followed by a whitish marginal line ; 

 fringe brown, darker at the base ; secondaries shining 

 sordid-white, crossed by a slender grey discal line ; a 

 black marginal line ; fringe greyish, with whitish basal 

 line bounded externality by a grey line ; bod}^ below pearly 

 white. Expanse of wings, 13 mm. 



A specimen slightly larger than the type (15 mm.) is 

 sent under the same number, but it is nniLh rubbed, and 



