348 Mr. A. G. Butler 6n Lepidoj)tera froiP Lifu. 



Fam. Limacodidae. 



Thosea cervma. 



Male. Upperside greenish fawn-colour : fore wing with 

 a transverse discal narrow slightly curved dark brown band ; 

 a black spot at end of the cell. Underside uniform brown ; a 

 white spot at base of antennse and on fore tibise. 



Exp. If inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Belippa ferruginea. 



Male and female. Ferruginous. Cilia purplish cinereous : 

 fore wing washed with chalybeous scales at the base, disk, 

 and the apex ; crossed by a subbasal darker sinuous band, a 

 black-speckled spot at lower end of cell, and a large white- 

 speckled black spot at apex of wing : hind wing paler ferru- 

 ginous, with a small black-speckled spot at apex, and a short 

 streak at anal angle. Abdomen with a slight dorsal black 

 segmental fringe. Underside paler than above, the black 

 apical spot on fore wing prominent, those on hind wing less 

 so. Tibias with a terminal black streak. 



Exp. S If, ? 1« inch. 



Eab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Fam. Cossidse. 



Zenzera nigra. 



Female. Black; both wings and thorax numerously speckled 

 with white. Wings narrow, acute at the apex. Body long 

 and slender. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood, 



XL VI. — On a Collectioti of Lepidoptera ohtained hy the Rev. 

 8. J. WMtmee from Lifu [Loyalty Oroup), with De- 

 scriptions of the new Sjiecies. By Arthur G. Butler. 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The present collection is interesting, not only as containing 

 several beautiful novelties and examples of one or two of the 

 rarer species of the Pacific Ocean, but from the close affinity 

 of the butt^-flies to those of New Caledonia — many of the 



