Mr. A. G. Butler on Lepidoptera from Lifu. 357 



30. Papilio Montrouzieri^ Boisduval. 

 The type was from New Caledonia. 



Family HesperiidaB. 

 Hesperia, Fabricius. 



31. Hesperia air ox ^ n. sp. 



Wings above shining chocolate-brown ; primaries tinted 

 with testaceous towards the base, with four sordid whitish 

 hyaline spots (arranged like eyes, nose, and mouth) across 

 the centre of the wing ; secondaries, with the exception of the 

 costal and external borders and the veins, testaceous ; head 

 and thorax olivaceous, the crest and upper siu'face of palpi 

 blackish ; abdomen black, banded with testaceous : wings 

 below chocolate-brown \ primaries with hyaline spots as above, 

 the lowermost spot extended to the internal margin ; secon- 

 daries with the external area slightly paler than the rest of 

 the wing ; a large blackish anal patch, surmounted by a 

 whitish spot ; legs and antennsB below reddish. Expanse of 

 wings 2 inches. 



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Heterocera. 



Family Sphingidae. 



Sprinqin^^ Butler. 



Peotoparce, Burmeister. 



32. Protoparce distans^ Butler. 

 A common species in New Zealand. 



Family CatepMdae. 

 Cocytodes, Gu^nde. 



33. Cocytodes modesta, Gu^nde. 



The blue spots in secondaries are of a rather purer colour 

 than in the Javan type ; but otherwise there seems to be no 

 difference. 



Family OpMderidae. 

 Ophideres, Boisduval. 

 34. Ophideres dioscorea^ Fabricius. 

 Doubtless a modification of O.fullonica. 

 Ann. & Mag, N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol xx. 25 



