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preceding species, and has a comparatively small number of 

 distant singly or doubly forked oblique branches. The much 

 less oblique branches of the interno-median vein are more 

 frequent, but appear less crowded from their simplicity, while 

 those of the externo-median are more distant than the latter, 

 and equally simple. There is no sign of any cross-venation. 

 This species, like the preceding, is small, the wing measuring 

 about 12 millim. long and 4*5 millim. broad. Named after 

 Prof. Arthur Lakes, of the School of Mines at Golden, Colo- 

 rado, the first discoverer of these fossils. 

 Triassic beds near Fairplay, Colorado. 



XXXVIII. — Remarks upon Lepidoptera collected in the Ellice 

 and Gilbert Islands. By Mr. C. M. WOODFORD *. 



THROUGHOUT Mr. Butler's article in the March number of 

 the ' Annals ' the word " Tamana " should be substituted 

 for "Tarawa" wherever it occurs (three times). It is an 

 error caused by the similarity in the names of the two islands. 

 Tamana I visited, Tarawa I did not. 



1. Junonia villida. 



This insect was extremely common upon all the islands 

 that I visited, and I also noticed the larva, but cannot identify 

 the food-plant. 



2. Hypolimnas rarick. 



This was common at Tapetewea and at other islands in the 

 Gilbert group, and I found the larva feeding upon a species 

 of Abutilon (a specimen of the plant was left by me at the 

 Natural-History Museum). At Nukufetau, in the Ellice 

 group, I saw only a solitary specimen of Hypolimnas (a male), 

 but could not capture it. 



3. Choerocampa erotoides. 



The single example brought was the only one I saw, and I 

 took it from the head of a child, who had tied it by a thread 

 attached to the insect's tongue, and fastened the other end to 

 his hair. This accounts for the damaged state of the speci- 



* Communicated by Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



