348 Mr. A. G. Butler on Lepidoptera from Lifu. 



Fam. Limacodidse. 



Thosea cervina. 



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 antennte and on fore tibige. 



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. Tibiffi with a terminal black streak. 



Exp. S 1|, ? 1^ inch. 



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



Fam. Cossidae. 



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 Collection of Lepidoptera obtained hy the Rev. 

 8. J. Whitmee f'om Lifu [Loyalty Group), with De- 

 scriptions of the new Species. 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 fiom the close afiinity 

 of the butterflies to those of New Caledonia — many of the 



