432 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



inner margins ; secondaries considerably paler than the primaries, 

 excepting along the outer margin; an indistinct greyish apical 

 border; wings below uniform pale golden stramineous, the pri- 

 maries showing traces of the markings of the upper surface ; 

 pectus silvery white, legs partly ochraceous ; venter cream- 

 coloured, with glistening white hind margins to the segments. 

 Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



NYMPHULA, Schr. 



83. Nymphula sordida, n. s. 



Whity brown, with faint golden reflections ; primaries with a 

 small dusky spot at the base ; a dark brown dot just below 

 the middle of the discoidal cell ; orbicular spot also represented by 

 a similar dot ; reniform spot well-defined, smoky brown ; a diffused 

 smoky brown apical spot and a streak of scattered scales of the 

 same colour near outer margin ; a marginal series of blackish dots ; 

 fringe shining whitish, traversed by a dusky line; secondaries 

 slightly greyish, with darker diffused external border ; fringes as 

 in primaries ; thorax greyish ; wings below whity brown, slightly 

 pearly ; markings obsolete ; body below pearly white. Expanse 

 of wings, 24 mm. 



Eockhampton. 



BOARMIID^E. 



BOARMIA, Treit. 



84. Boarmia tongaica, n. s. 



Yellowish (or bone-) whitish; external borders of the wings 

 blotched with sepia-brown, crossed by a submarginal dentate- 

 sinuate white line ; an angular undulated sepia-brown discal band, 

 traversed along its inner edge by a line of the ground colour ; a 

 conspicuous black spot enclosing a line of silvery grey scales at the 

 extremity of each discoidal cell, below and beyond which spot is a 

 dusky nebulous patch, widest on the secondaries ; an irregular 

 oblique dark brown line commencing with an elbow at the middle 

 of the costal margin of the primaries, passing in front of the cell 

 in these wings and behind the discoidal spot on the secondaries, 

 terminating at about the middle of the abdominal margin ; base 

 mottled with blackish brown ; primaries with an elbowed black- 

 edged brown band across the basal fourth ; costal margin irregularly 

 spotted with black ; thorax greyish brown ; tegulae and abdomen 

 spotted with black; under surface of the wings with the disc 

 clouded with greyish brown ; a spot of the ground colour at the 

 apices of the wings, a second at the extremity of the second 



