420 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



the supplementary cell in the neuration of its primaries, 

 corresponds with the Lithosiidce, it differs entirely in its 

 very characteristic palpi : a comparison of its structure 

 with that of Locastra shows it to be evidently allied to 

 that genus. 



MICRO SCA, Butler. 

 63. Microsca plagifera, n. s. 



Fiery cupreous, indistinctly speckled and striated with earthy 

 greyish ; primaries with an unequally subquadrate silver patch, 

 through the centre of which runs a golden reticulated bar ; wings 

 below paler than above, sericeous-red, reticulated with dark grey ; 

 primaries with the basi-costal area and the centre of disc earthy 

 greyish ; patch of upper surface pearly, corrugated, the reticulated 

 band dark ochraceous ; body below testaceous ; anterior legs 

 brownish, with testaceous bands. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 



Tonga Island. 



Somewhat resembles Felder's Thermesia ? fenestrina, 

 which probably is not a Thermesia. 



PHARAMBARA, Walk. 

 64. Pharambara reticulata, n. s. 



$ . Not unlike the female of P. micacealis ; golden testaceous, 

 slightly rosy towards outer margins ; with numerous darker reticu- 

 lations which tend to form lines in some instances, only one of 

 these lines, however, is at all pronounced, forming a slightly 

 sinuous submarginal line across the primaries ; a slender marginal 

 black line along the costa, interrupted by seven or eight minute 

 black-edged yellowish spots ; a series of extremely minute black 

 points near outer margin, the third from costa continued obliquely 

 downwards as a slender abbreviated zigzag line ; fringes tipped 

 with whitish ; under surface pale shining testaceous, with the body 

 and internal areas of the wings almost cream-coloured, but the 

 apical areas washed with reddish golden ; reticulations more 

 strongly denned than above, golden cupreous, some of them 

 expanded into angulated stripes enclosing black dots and striae ; 

 three of these stripes cross the primaries, the central one united 

 to a patch of the same colour, dotted with black and silver at the 

 end of the cell ; the base of the cell, costal vein, and median vein 

 are also defined by metallic silvery and opaline scales ; an oblique 

 subapical black lice ; legs clay-coloured or reddish ochraceous ; 



