328 Mr. A. G. Butler on Nocturnal Lepidoptera 



yond the cell grey ; secondaries with a marginal series of 

 black dots : body below sericeous white ; palpi red at the 

 sides. Expanse of wings 8^ lines. 



One speiumen in good condition. I can find no reference 

 to the number, and therefore cannot record its exact locality. 



14. Mecyna ennycMoides^B'^. n. (No. 135). 



Dark fuliginous brown : wings with shining slaty-grey 

 reflections ; a marginal series of black dots ; fringe tipped 

 with white ; primaries with the usual markings characteristic 

 of Boft/s, black, as follows : — a black dot before the middle of 

 the cell, the orbicular and reniform spots represented in out- 

 line ; a bisinuate abbreviated line from the orbicular spot to 

 the inner margin, and the usual alternately angulated (or 

 castellated) discal line from costa to inner margin ; apical 

 half of costal margin black, spotted with testaceous : seconda- 

 ries with white costa : body blackish, the abdomen with a 

 bluish gloss. Under surface, excepting that it is altogether 

 less red, is almost identical in pattern with Ajyorodes ? micacea. 

 Expanse of wings 10^ lines. 



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

 4000 feet, on Haleakala, Maui. 



The extraordinary resemblance which this species bears to 

 Aporodes ? micacea on the under surface makes me doubt, 

 notwithstanding its many structural differences, whether it is 

 not the male of that species ; yet on the upper surface the 

 pattern and colouring are very different ; the form of the pri- 

 maries, the length and form of the palpi, and the length of 

 the tibiai and tarsi are altogether dissimilar. 



15. Mecyna nigrescens, sp. n. (No. 136). 



Primaries above dark brown, clouded in the centre with pale 

 buff, which colour fills the intervals between the discoidal 

 spots; all the markings similar to those of the preceding- 

 species, excepting that the orbicular and reniform spots are 

 dark brown witli black margins, that there are two additional 

 black spots close to the base, that the two transverse lines are 

 bordered with pale buff and white, that there is a whitish ne- 

 bula near the apex and a white oblique stripe from the discal 

 line to the outer margin, that the marginal black dots are 

 bordered with white and the fringe is spotted with pale buff : 

 secondaries shining fuliginous brown, with the basal half of 

 the costal border white ; two black spots in the cell, fringe 

 spotted with white : thorax pale buff, speckled with black; abdo- 

 men black, with white hind margins to the segments. Primaries 

 below grey, with silvery white internal border; costal border 



