from the Haicaiian Islands. ,323 



speckled centres : secondaries grej, the veins and a diffused 

 outer border fuliginous brown ; costal border whitish, shining, 

 with brassy reflections ; fringe cream-coloured, traversed by a 

 brown line ; thorax laky brown, the collar crossed by scarcely 

 perceptibly darker lines ; abdomen grey, becoming brown 

 towards the anus, and fringed on each side with lake-brown 

 hair ; anal tuft orange. Wings below sericeous whitish, with 

 the borders pale rosy testaceous, speckled with black j black 

 discocellular spots ; a dusky angulated discal line ; external 

 border greyish ; a marginal series of lunate black dots ; fringe 

 with a pale yellowish basal line : primaries with the discoidal 

 area greyish ; fringe reddish : secondaries with the fringe 

 crossed by a grey line and tipped with white : body below 

 dull rose-colour ; venter with lateral black dots. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



? . Darker than the male, the markings more distinct, the 

 black lines across the basal area distinct and continuous with 

 the costal spots, the discal series of black dots attached to 

 whitish dots, and therefore having the appearance of an extra 

 discal line ; abdomen dark greyish brown. Otherwise as in 

 the male. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



A pair in good condition. "Various localities on Maui, 

 April and May 1880." 



6. Apamea cinctijpennis ^ sp. n. (No. 140). 



Aspect of Chersotis^ but with the border of the primaries 

 almost as pale as in Ajjamea limbata. Primaries above 

 shining laky brown, mottled all over, excepting upon the outer 

 border, with black ; outer border pale dead golden or sandy 

 brown, slightly speckled v/ith black; a marginal series of black 

 lunate spots ; costa, disk, and basal area mottled with pale 

 testaceous ; a zigzag black-bordered pale testaceous stripe at 

 basal third, and a curved series of internally black-bordered 

 testaceous spots across the disk ; discoidal cell blackish, the 

 ordinary spots slaty grey, edged with black ; the outer margin 

 of the reniform spot angulated and whitish ; fringe pale tes- 

 taceous and laky brown in alternate lines : secondaries 

 shining grey, with dusky diffused outer border ; fringe pale 

 testaceous, intersected by a dusky line ; thorax slaty grey, 

 varied with brown j abdomen shining grey, with ochreous 

 anal tuft. Under surface whitish grey, shining : wings with 

 black-speckled sandy-tinted borders; discocellular and mar- 

 ginal black spots ; venter ochreous, Avith lateral series of black 

 spots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 



One specimen. I can find no reference to the No. (" 140 ") 

 in Mr. Blackburn's notes, and therefore am ignorant as to 

 the exact locality for this species. 



