38 Mr. A. G. Butler on a small collection of 



coloured stripe, bounding a marginal series of externally 

 white-pupilled black spots ; fringe whitish, spotted with 

 grey, and with a black basal line ; a black lunule at the 

 end of the cell ; secondaries creamy white, with a large 

 quadrate apical blackish spot separated from the outer 

 margin by a slender white line ; beyond this is a slender 

 abbreviated black line at the base of the fringe, which is 

 white, faintly tipped at apex with grey ; basal hair-pencil 

 white ; lateral forked hair-pencils white, tipped with 

 black; head white ; antennae brown above, white below ; 

 thorax blackish, with the borders of the tegulae white ; 

 abdomen with the basal segments white, the other 

 segments blackish edged with white ; an;il tuft testaceous ; 

 primaries below with the basal third cream-coloured, the 

 internal border white, the remainder of the wing brown, 

 shot with bluish grey ; two cream-coloured costal spots, 

 the first only separated by a narrow oblique brown line 

 from the basal area, the second larger and placed just 

 beyond the middle of the costa ; (a slightly curved in- 

 distinct whitish submarginal line)*; a sharply-defined 

 whitish marginal line ; fringe pale brown, with a black 

 basal line ; secondaries below cream-coloured ; a large 

 grey lunate spot from costal margin to subcostal fork ; a 

 grey apical spot ; fringe as above ; body below cream- 

 coloured ; anterior tibise and tarsi banded above with 

 black ; middle tibiae banded above near the base ; 

 posterior tibiae with the fan-like tuft of hair black, 

 tipped with white on its upper surface. Expanse of 

 wings, 13 mm. 



Two specimens. 



" This species occurs on rocks in the bed of a moun- 

 tain stream near Honolulu, over which it flies freely in 

 the sunshine." — T. B. 



9. Mestolohes simcethina, n. s. (No. 157). 



Dark fuliginous-brown, sericeous ; basal fourth of 

 primaries darker and bounded externally by a blackish 

 line, and followed almost immediately by a transverse 

 bracket-shaped black-edged white or testaceous stripe ; a 

 second angulated externo-discal stripe beginning in a 

 pale yellowish costal dash, and continued as a series of 



* Peiiiaps due to abrasion. 



