394 Mr. A. G. Butler on Nocturnal Lepidoptera 



by a slender transverse black line ; two snbmarg-inal white 

 dots close to the a])ex ; disk between the apical patch and the 

 elbowed band filled by a large semicircular silvery patch en- 

 closing a grey , -shaped spot crossed by black and cupreous 

 lines ; fringe traversed by parallel dark grey lines : secondaries 

 greyish brown with cupreous reflections ; fringe silver-grey, 

 traversed near the base by a dark grey stripe : head and thorax 

 whitish ; abdomen dark grey. Primaries below fuliginous 

 brown with cupreous reflections, costal margin from just before 

 the middle spotted with white ; fringe traversed, at the base 

 and in the middle, by two slender whitish lines : secondaries 

 shining silvery white, the apical half mottled with grey and 

 with slight cupreous reflections ; costal border crossed by ab- 

 breviated blackish striae : body below shining creamy white. 

 Expanse of wings 5| lines. 



Var. (No. 131). 



The basal bands on the primaries decidedly blacker, the 

 second band well defined and solid throughout ; the area im- 

 mediately beyond this band white, forming a well-defined 

 quadrate spot at the centre of the inner (dorsal) border ; other- 

 wise similar. Expanse of wings 5 lines. 



Two specimens. " Flying about low plants at Makawao, 

 Maui." \ ^ 



Lord Walsingham kindly identified this for me as a second 

 species of his genus; it comes nearest to the variety of P. 

 emarginana figured at pi. Ixxvi. fig. 3, of the " North-Ameri- 

 can Tortricidai " (111. Typ. Lep. Het. iv.). His Lordship 

 has also referred the two following species to their genera. 



27. SteganoptychafoetorivoranSy sp. n. (No. 66). 



Primaries above with the costal half, excepting the margin, 

 slaty grey, inner or dorsal half, including the external area 

 and fringe, silvery white ; costal margin silvery wliite, s])otted 

 with black, some of these black spots elongated into oblique 

 lines ; a short longitudinal dash close to the base ; an oblique 

 abbreviated band at basal fourth and a second just beyond tlie 

 middle, united at their inferior extremities by a cross band, 

 blackish brown ; a black spot and a diff"used brown spot close 

 to the external angle ; three longitudinal, discal, minute black 

 dashes in a curved series ; apex transversely striated with 

 black ; fringe externally irrorated with grey : secondaries 

 shining fuliginous brown, with a pale line at the base of the 

 fringe : body pale brown, collar and tegula3 darker ; abdomen 

 with slight cupreous reflections. Wings below fuliginous 

 brown with cupreous reflections, internal borders white with 



