326 Mr. A. G. Butler on Nocturnal Lepidoptei-a 



angiilated black-edged oclireous stripes representing the central 

 belt ; a diffused white costal spot immediately beyond the outer 

 stripe ; an irregularly falciform snow-white cliscal line ; a 

 marginal series of black dots ; fringe whitish, spotted with 

 blackish and intersected by a black line ; secondaries very 

 slightly greenish in tint as compared with the primaries, with 

 a slender whitish submarginal line followed by a slender black 

 marginal line; fringe whitish, intersected by a grey line ; palpi, 

 head, and thorax dusky. Under surface dark shining leaden 

 grey ; wings with whitish submarginal and blackish mar- 

 ginal lines ; fringe as above ; primaries with white internal 

 border : pectus and under surface of legs white ; tarsi above 

 blackish, banded with white. Expanse of wings 6^ lines. 



One specimen, taken " at light at an elevation of about 

 4000 feet on Haleakala, Maui." 



11. Aj)orodes? micacea, sp. n. (No. 118). 



Primaries above shining slaty grey, shot with purple and 

 clouded with black ; a creamy whitish irregular subbasal 

 band, densely irrorated, excepting along its borders, with 

 black scales ; orbicular and reniform spots well-defined, black, 

 varied with clay-colour ; a very irregular dentate-sinuate 

 black discal line partly bordered externally with white and 

 golden orchreous, a large cuneiform costal oclireous patch 

 beyond the discal line, spotted, upon the costal border, with 

 black ; outer and inner borders irrorated with ochreous ; two 

 marginal alternated series of black spots, and between the 

 spots of the outer series snow-white dots ; fringe intersected 

 by two black lines and spotted externally with ochreous : se- 

 condaries greyish brown, with bronzy reflections ; costal border 

 silvery whitish towards the base ; fringe whitish, spotted with 

 blackish and intersected by two lines of the same colour : 

 body black, with the thorax and anterior abdominal segments 

 spotted with rosy cupreous, posterior segments altogether of 

 this colour ; the anterior segments also have snow-white pos- 

 terior margins. Wings below cupreous, shining, with an 

 alternately black and white marginal line and silky white 

 fringe ; primaries shot with pale greyish blue, so that in 

 certain lights the whole tint of these wings is entirely altered ; 

 costal border red, spotted with black from the end of the cell ; 

 orbicular and reniform spots large and black ; discal line of the 

 upper surface indicated but indistinct ; secondaries reddish all 

 over and irrorated with black ; the interno-median area and a 

 streak through the cell snow-white, speckled with black, ex- 

 cepting on the veins, which remain reddish ; a discal series 

 of white-bordered black spots ; three black spots in the cell. 



