Dr. A. G. Butler on Lepidoptera from Chili. 457 
Upper surface of the body with longitudinal buff- and 
brown-olive streaks; the under surface white, with a tawny 
line running along the middle of the abdomen. 
Exp. 57 millim. 
Hab. Simbang, near Finschhafen, German New Guinea 
(Micholitz, June 1893). 
Named in honour of the collector. 
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LXVI.—On a Small Collection of Lepidoptera from Chili. 
By Artuur G. Burier, Ph.D., F.L.8., F.Z.8., &e. 
A sHoRT time since Herr G. Ruschewegh, of Buenos Aires, 
wrote to ask whether I would undertake to determine a series 
of Chilian Geometrx, conditionally on the specimens being 
presented to the British Museum; to this I agreed, and 
during September a box of Lepidoptera in papers came to 
hand, some of which, indeed, are not Geometre and several 
of which, when set up, I found to bein such bad condition as 
to be unrecognizable. The latter are numbered respectively 
as follows :—Deltoids (nos. 12, 78, and 120), Geometre 
(nos. 17, 61, 63 in fragments, 111, 137, and 147), these nine 
examples being all worn, rubbed, and more or less broken. 
Herr Ruschewegh forwarded with the specimens a letter, in 
which he proposed a number of names for the new species, the 
majority of which are, however, so unclassical in character 
that it would not be possible toemploy them. ‘The following 
is a catalogue of all the recognizable species :— 
Hepialide. 
1. Dalaca subfervens, Butler. 
Dalaca subfervens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 25. n. 39. 
In my account of the Bombyces of Chili I recognized six 
species of Dalaca, five of which Mr. Hampson has since put 
together under the name of D. pallens, Blanch.: breeding 
alone will decide whether he is right in so doing ; at present, 
judging from the extraordinary variability of many of the 
Chilian Lepidoptera, it is quite as possible as it is at present 
unproved. 
NocTUs. 
2. Peridroma saucia, Hiibner. 
Peridroma saucia, Hiibner, Sammi. eur. Schmett., Noct. fig. 578. 
The examples are links between typical P. saucia and 
P. hostilis and are labelled D, F', H, and C 6 respectively. 
