420 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



tbe supplementary cell in the neuration of its primaries, 

 corresponds with the LithosiidcB, it differs entirely in its 

 very characteristic palpi : a comparison of its structure 

 with that of Locastra shows it to be evidently allied to 

 that genus. 



SICULID^. 



MiCEoscA, Butler. 

 63. Microsca plagifera, n. s. 

 Fiery cupreous, indistinctly speckled and striated with earthy 

 greyish ; primaries with an unequally subquadi'ate silver patch, 

 through the centre of which runs a golden reticulated bar ; wings 

 below paler than above, sericeous-red, reticulated with dark grey ; 

 primaries with the basi-costal area and the centre of disc earthy 

 greyish ; patch of upper surface pearly, corrugated, the reticulated 

 band dark ochraceous ; body below testaceous ; anterior legs 

 brownish, with testaceous bands. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 



Tonga Island. 



Somewhat resembles Felder's Thcrmesia ? fenestrina, 

 which probably is not a Thermesia. 



Pharambara, Walk. 

 64. Pharambara reticulata, n. s. 

 $ . Not unlike the female of P. micacealis ; golden testaceous, 

 slightly rosy towards outer margins ; with numerous darker reticu- 

 lations which tend to form lines in some instances, only one of 

 these Imes, however, is at all pronounced, forming a slightly 

 sinuous submarginal line across the primaries ; a slender marginal 

 black line along the costa, interrupted by seven or eight minute 

 black-edged, yellowish spots ; a series of extremely minute black 

 points near outer margin, the third from costa continued obliquely 

 downwards as a slender abbreviated zigzag line ; fringes tipped 

 with whitish ; under surface pale shining testaceous, with the body 

 and internal areas of the wings almost cream-coloiu-ed, but the 

 apical areas washed with reddish golden ; reticulations more 

 strongly defined than above, golden cupreous, some of them 

 expanded into augulated stripes enclosing black dots and striae ; 

 three of these stripes cross the primaries, the central one united 

 to a patch of the same colour, dotted with black and silver at the 

 end of the cell ; the base of the cell, costal vein, and median vein 

 are also defined by metallic silvery and opaline scales ; an oblique 

 subapical black line ; legs clay-coloured or reddish ochraceous ; 



