Mr. H. N. Moseley on Peripatus novae-zealandise. 85 



Hesperia Optata. 



AKs utrinque rufo-fuscis : anticis infra plaga atra plagisque duabus 

 flavis : posticis plaga flava. 



Upperside rufous-brown, paler at the middle of the anterior 

 wing, the fringe rufous-yellow, the head and thorax tinted 

 with lilac-blue. 



Underside rufous. Anterior wing with a band of dark 

 brown from the base to beyond the middle, bordered below 

 with pale yellow. Posterior wing with the base rufous-brown, 

 tinted with purple and bordered below with pale yellow. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Hah. Brazil. 



In the collection of Dr. Standi nger. 



Unlike any other species in the strange colouring of the 

 underside. 



Hesperia Onasima. 



Alis utrinque rufo-fuscis : anticis punctis quatuor (duobus sub 

 apicem minutissimis) hyalinis : posticis punctis duobus hyahnis : 

 anticis infra plaga flava. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with four trans- 

 parent white spots — two between the branches of the median 

 nervure and two (very minute) near the aj)ex. Posterior wing 

 with two central transparent spots. 



Underside as above, except that it is red-brown, that the 

 anterior wing has a small pale yellow spot in the cell, and a 

 large yellow spot bordered with dark brown near the inner 

 margin. 



Exp. ly^ij inch. 



Hah. Brazil. 



In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



VI. — liemarhs on Ohservations hy Captain Hutton^ Director 

 of the tag Museum, on Peripatus novas-zealandiaj*, with 

 Notes on the Structure of the Sjjecies. By H. N. MoSELEY, 

 Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Naturalist to the ' Chal- 

 lenger ' Expedition. 



The above-cited paper by Captain Hutton, which appeared in 

 the November number of this Journal, contains so many 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Nov. 1876. 



