398 Mr. A. G. Butler on Nocturnal LeiJidoptera 



and speckled here and there with black, especially along the 

 inner or dorsal margin ; costal border regularly spotted with 

 black from the middle to the apex, and forming a continuous 

 series, wnth six or seven spots on the outer margin ; an oblique 

 irregular black basicostal dash ; a group of black spots across 

 the discoidal cell, just beyond its centre ; a black transverse 

 spot at the end of the cell, a subconfluent angulated series of 

 longitudinal black dashes immediately beyond the cell, and a 

 second series of distinct black dashes halfway between the 

 latter and the outer margin ; fringe pale, with grey tips and 

 blackish spots in continuation of the black marginal spots : 

 secondaries brownish grey ; fringe pale testaceous, with the 

 tips and a subbasal line dark grey, a slender white basal line: 

 thorax testaceous, speckled with black ; abdomen dark grey, 

 with the hind margins of the segments and anus golden buff. 

 Under surface sericeous grey : wings with blackish-spotted 

 yellowish fringes, but appearing glossy grey in certain lights ; 

 primaries with black-spotted testaceous costal border : secon- 

 daries paler than the primaries, having a silvery aspect : 

 body below silvery, like the secondaries ; legs dark brown 

 above and banded with whitish, below whitish. Expanse of 

 wings llg to 122 lines. 



" At an elevation of 4000 feet on Haleakala, Maui. Gene- 

 rally started off rotten trunks and stumps of trees. Two 

 specimens."' — T. B. 



35. Bej^ressaria lactea^ sp. n. (ISTo. 129). 



Primaries above cream-coloured, more or less densely 

 speckled with testaceous on the borders, and with black mark- 

 ings, nearly as in the preceding species ; base occupied by an 

 irregular black stripe ; a S-shaped black marking across the 

 cell and a 7-shaped black marking at the end of the cell ; an 

 ill-defined arched series of subconfluent dusky dashes imme- 

 diately beyond the cell, followed by an arched subconfluent 

 series of longitudinal blackish dashes ; apical half of costal 

 margin and external margin regularly spotted with black; 

 fringe white, indistinctly spotted with grey: secondaries 

 silvery white, speckled with grey, especially on the disk, 

 where the greyish irroration forms a broad belt ; a slender 

 interrupted subbasal line on the fringe, which is also spotted 

 with grey : head and thorax cream-colour ; antennse and ter- 

 minal joint of palpi blackish ; abdomen silvery. Primaries 

 below cream-coloin-ed, mottled with grey, excepting on the 

 costal and internal borders ; marginal black spots rather less 

 sharply defined than above, but quite distinct : secondaries 

 shining silvery white, costal border with creamy yellowish 



