424 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



margin ; a submarginal series of short black dashes followed by a 

 narrow testaceous stripe, and a marginal series of black dots; 

 fringe slightly testaceous ; an oblique blackish dash upon the first 

 ochreous band just below the median vein, and an imperfect 

 annular blackish spot at the end of the cell ; secondaries crossed 

 near the base by an oblique blackish-speckled pale ochreous line ; 

 a second line crossing the middle of the wing from abdominal 

 margin to costa, emitting a branch inwards from the end of the 

 cell to the costa nearer the base ; a dusky-edged pale ochreous 

 band crossing the disc, attenuated and elbowed towards the costa ; 

 an undulated submarginal blackish line followed by a testaceous 

 line and a marginal series of black dots ; fringe tinted with 

 testaceous; markings below, excepting along the outer margins, 

 very indistinct. Expanse of wings, 23 mm. 



Kockhampton. 



ASOPIID^E. 



KINECERA, Butler. 

 69. Rinecera nigrescens, n. s. 



Allied to R. mirabilis ; purplish black ; primaries crossed at 

 basal fourth by an irregularly angulated whitish line ; a second 

 very indistinct and very irregular zigzag line from costa to first 

 median branch, along which it runs inwards for some distance, and 

 then turns abruptly at a right angle and passes with two alternate 

 angles to inner margin ; discoidal spots represented by two little 

 white dashes ; secondaries crossed by two whitish lines, the first 

 interrupted by a white dot at the end of the cell, the second 

 running from about the middle of the outer margin to the costa ; 

 both lines ill-defined in the male ; wings below T nearly as above, 

 but the internal borders sericeous- whitish ; body below sordid 

 white. Expanse of wings : male, 23 mm. ; female, 20 mm. 



Viti Islands. 



The species is larger and darker than E. mirabilis, and 

 differs in many details of colouring ; both evidently 

 differ structurally from Ceratoclasis barbicornis, Feld. 



HOBMATHOLEPIS, n. g. 



Allied to Einecera ; wings elongated ; primaries with the costa 

 deeply grooved below to a little before the middle, where the costal 

 vein bends somewhat inwards before its termination ; subcostal 

 vein apparently five-branched ;* remaining veins as mNiphadaza; 



* Owing to the folding over of the costal border in the type these 

 branches are difficult to follow, but they appear to be similar 



