40 Mr. A. G. Butler on a small collectiun of 



subapical costal blackish reniform spot, followed by a 

 buff-coloured apical spot ; a submarginal series of black 

 dots, followed by a slender buff-coloured marginal line ; 

 fringe buff-coloured, with a black basal stripe, and tipped 

 with black; secondaries pale ochreous, with two bi- 

 sinuated parallel blackish marginal lines ; body above 

 pale brown ; abdomen with the basal segments whitish, 

 the other segments black-edged; under surface pale 

 creamy buff; jnimaries with two black costal spots, 

 between which the. margin is grey, the costal margin 

 towards the base blackish ; apex and external area 

 broadly grey, two white costal spots ; fringe greyish, 

 with blackish lines as above ; secondaries with a small 

 costal grey lunule at apical third, and a few indistinct 

 dots along the margin ; fringe greyish, excepting at the 

 base ; body whitish ; legs white ; the tibiae and anterior 

 tarsi with black ornamentation above almost as in 

 M. cenone, but the bands narrower. Expanse of wings, 

 13. mm. 



" The female is unknown to me. I have taken two or 

 three specimens singl}^ in mountain localities near Hono- 

 lulu."— r. B. 



This species curiously resembles the female of Mccyna 

 cxigiia in coloration. 



11. Sco'pula constricta, n. s. (No. 108). 



Allied to 8. dijysasalis of New Zealand, but still more 

 closely to S.fulralis of Europe; from dark examples of 

 the latter species it differs in its still darker, redder, and 

 more sericeous primaries, the macular character of the 

 black lines upon both surfaces, the narrow Q-shaped 

 character of the reniform spot, the smaller and more 

 rounded orbicular spot, the sharply-defined and larger 

 black submarginal spots, the slightly paler and distinctly 

 more sericeous colouring of the secondaries, the reddish 

 brown coloration of the thorax and palpi, the con- 

 siderably greater length of these organs, the rust-red 

 colour of the tibite and tarsi, and of the costal border of 

 primaries on the under surface : lastl}^ in the very 

 distinct black maculation of the under surface of the 

 wings, the ordinary blackish discal line being replaced 

 by a series of black spots. Expanse of wings, 22 — 

 24 mm. 



