from the Hawaiian Islands. 319 



tion of the larva of another hawk-moth, which I named in a 

 previous paper Protopar-ce Blackharnii : — 



''''Description of full-grown larva. Green or ashy grey, more 

 or less sprinkled with white; spiracular line white, emitting 

 upwards and backwards (/. e. so that they slant upwards in a 

 backward direction) seven white stripes, the first of which is 

 on the fourth segment (not counting the head as a segment), 

 the last on the tenth ; on the eleventh segment is a small 

 white stripe bent backwards over the spiracle, being much 

 smaller than the white lines on the other segments ; head 

 with two well-defined black longitudinal lines, and clouded 

 with black laterally ; spiracles black, surrounded with a 

 bright blue ring ; horn long, shining black, bent backwards ; 

 claspers of the ground-colour. In the ashy grey larvse the 

 whole dorsal surface is sprinkled with white ; the segment 

 behind the head is shining black, bordered with white ; the 

 last claspers and space round the anus are shining black (at 

 least partially) ; and the legs are blackish at base, becoming- 

 red towards apex. In the green larvaa only a few segments 

 near the head are sprinkled with white, and the segment next 

 behind the head, the last claspers and the space round the 

 anus are olivaceous rather than black ; the legs, too, are 

 more conspicuously red. 



" Feeds on a very common weed growing about 2 feet 

 high, also on a shrub growing some 6 feet high, neither of 

 which is known to me by name." 



Larentiidae. 



2. Scotosia corticea^ sp. n. (No. 116). 



Bronzy brown : wings mottled all over with dark slaty 

 grey, most distinctly on the primaries, where the mottling 

 forms transverse striations ; a rather broad central belt, formed 

 of two stripes of a dark slaty-grey colour and the space 

 between them, which is slightly paler ; the outer stripe den- 

 tate-siimate externally, both stripes inarched towards the 

 costa of primaries ; a discal stripe limiting the external 

 border, parallel to the central belt, almost obsolete on the 

 secondaries : primaries with traces of a curved slaty-grey 

 stripe at basal fourth, and with the external border densely 

 mottled with this colour : body greyish. Under surface paler 

 than above, the wings very slightly striated with grey, ex- 

 cepting towards apex of primaries ; an oval discocellular grey 

 spot on each wing, largest on the primaries, the costal margin 

 of these wings straw-yellow, mottled with black : body below 



