414 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



Although this species agrees in its structural details 

 with P. iUiiiKiris, the dark nebulous s})ot on the external 

 border of the secondaries gives it somewhat the aspect 

 of Cerocala. 



Hyp^tra, Guenee. 



54. Hypcetra sordida, n. s. 



Primaries pale greyish brown, slightly suffused with lilacine, 

 speckled and transversely striated with blackish grey ; inner and 

 central stris indicated by ill-defined wavy blackish squamosa 

 stripes ; discoidal spots obsolete ; a clavate black spot below the 

 submedian vein at basal third ; a cream-coloured nearly straight 

 line crossing the disc at external fourth ; from this line tapering 

 ferruginous streaks run outwards along the veins, but they are only 

 strongly defined towards apex ; immediately beyond the discal 

 line is an interrupted and slightly irregular series of blackish 

 spots ; a marginal series of black dots ; fringe whity brown ; 

 secondaries whity brown towards base ; crossed beyond the middle 

 by a slightly curved internally diffused greyish baud ; external 

 border broad, of the same colour, and separated from the post- 

 median band by a whity-brown band a little paler than the basal 

 area ; a marginal series of blackish dots ; fringe sandy whitish ; 

 thorax pale fuliginous-grey ; head and collar darker grey, the 

 latter with dark brown borders ; abdomen whity brown ; under 

 surface whity brown, costal areas slightly tinted with pale flesh- 

 brown ; central area of primaries, a disco-cellular spot, and two 

 arched diffused bands on the secondaries, slightly greyish ; palpi 

 whity brown internally, dark brown externally. Expanse of wings, 

 45 mm. 



Viti Islands. 



Somewhat resembles " Toxocampa orthosioides " of 

 Walker from N. Australia ; the latter is, however, 

 synonjanous with Pantydia recondita of Walker. 



Hypcetra diffundens, Wlk., is Remiyia virhia, Cram. 



55. Ophiiisa vitiensis, n. s. 



Allied to 0. stuj)osa, Fabr., but differing as follows : — Primaries 

 above suffused with lilac, the band before the middle much less 

 white and decidedly narrower ; the irregular dark olivaceous belt 

 beyond it considerably broader, the second angulation of its outer 

 edge much farther from the upper one ; two dark olivaceous spots 

 in the sinus between these two angles ; the oblique apical patch 

 not externally incised ; the white band across the secondavies only 



