from tlie Hawaiian Islands. 393 



ries ; the neuration of tlie secondaries, however, differs in the 

 separate emission of the second and third median branches ; 

 the head is clothed above with long coarse hair, much longer 

 than in Pcedisca ; and the palpi are longer, more depressed, 

 and with the second joint clothed below with a long projecting 

 fringe of hair; the antennae are normal. I have failed to 

 discover any described genus answering to these characters. 



25. Chiloides straminea^ sp. n. (No. 101). 



General coloration of a Chih ; somewhat similar to Pcedisca 

 albidulana : primaries stramineous with brown veins ,• costal 

 margin dotted with black ; subcostal area crossed by numerous 

 abbreviated fine oblique black lines and dots ; submedian area 

 speckled with black dots, the most prominent of which form 

 a little group below the end of the cell, and two oblique series 

 of three each, the first at basal third, and the second just be- 

 yond the external third ; a submarginal series of fine black 

 points : secondaries shining silvery grey, fringe slightly stra- 

 mineous, white towards the anal angle, with a slender sub- 

 basal testaceous line : body stramineous. Primaries below 

 shining blackish brown, with pale buff costal border minutely 

 and sparsely speckled with black ; external border slightly 

 stramineous, black-speckled ; fringe stramineous, with a sub- 

 basal brownish line : secondaries shining creamy white, 

 fringe as above : body pale creamy buff. Expanse of wings 

 9 lines. 



One specimen. " Occurs on salt marshes near Honolulu." 

 Mr. Blackburn has sent a specimen (No. 95) of a species 

 which I am unable to identify. It was taken " flying near 

 the active crater of Mauna Loa, Hawaii ; elevation 4000 feet." 

 Whether this fact has any connexion with its condition I 

 cannot, of course^ say ; but its abdomen is wanting, and the 

 wings, if they ever possessed a pattern, have certainly lost it. 



26. Proteojyteryx Blachhurnii^ sp. n. (No. 132). 



Primaries above ash-grey, clouded with cupreous brown ; 

 costal area crossed by numerous parallel regular oblique 

 brown stripes ; a broad angulated band close to the base and 

 a second just beyond it, only indicated by the usual oblique 

 stripes above the median vein, but below this vein strongly 

 defined externally by broad brown stripes; a cupreous oblique 

 band from the middle of the costa to the external angle ; this 

 band is abruptly elbowed, widened, and mottled with black 

 from the middle to the inner (or dorsal) margin ; apex black, 

 crossed on the costal border by a triangular white spot divided 



