Dr. A. G. Butler on he-pidoptcra from Chili. Aol 



Upper surface of the body with longitudinal buff- and 

 brown-olive streaks ; the under surface white, with a tawny 

 line running along the middle of the abdomen. 



Exp, 57 millim. 



Hab. Simbang, near Finschhafen, German New Guinea 

 {MichoUtz,S\mQ 1893). 



Named in honour of the collector. 



LXVI. — On a Small Collection of Lppidoptera from Chili. 

 By Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



A SHORT time since Herr G. Ruschewegh, of Buenos Aires, 

 wrote to ask whether I would undertake to deterinine a series 

 of Chilian Geometrfe, conditionally on the specimens being 

 presented to the British Museum ; to this I agreed, and 

 during September a box of Lepidoptera in papers came to 

 hand, some of which, indeed, are not Geometrge and several 

 of which, when set up, I found to be in such bad condition as 

 to be unrecognizable. The latter are numbered respectively 

 as follows: — Deltoids (nos. 12, 78, and 120), Geometr^e 

 (nos. 17, 61, 63 in fragments. 111, 137, and 147), these nine 

 examples being all worn, rubbed, and more or less broken. 

 Herr Euschewegh forwarded with the specimens a letter, in 

 which he proposed a number of names for the new species, the 

 majority of which are, however, so unclassical in character 

 that it would not be possible to employ them. The following 

 is a catalogue of all the recognizable species: — 



Hepialidje. 



1. Dalaca suhfervens^ Butler. 



Dalaca subfervens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 2o. n. 39. 



In my account of the Borabyces of Chili I recognized six 

 species of JJalaca, five of whicii Mr. liampson has since put 

 together under the name of V. pallens, Blanch. : breeding 

 alone will decide whether he is right in so doing ; at present, 

 judging from the extraordinary variability of many of the 

 Chilian Lepidoptera, it is quite as possible as it is at present 

 unproved. 



N C T U Ji. 



2. Peridroma saucia^ Hiibner. 



Feridroma saucia, Hiibner, Sauiml. eur. Schmett., Noct. fig. 378. 



The examples are links between typical /-*. saucia and 

 P. hosliiis and are labelled D, F, H, and C 6 respectively. 



