58 Mr. A. G. Butler on Lepidoptera from 
Queen Charlotte Islands the lateral avicularia have a pointed 
mandible instead of the normal rounded one. Smitt has 
noticed the same thing in Floridan specimens. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Puate III. 
Fig. 1, Lepralia bilabiata, n. sp. 1a. A zocecium with ovicell. 10. Zocs- 
cium with the operculum thrown back, showing the entrance to 
the tubular passage. 
Fig. 2. Lepralia claviculata, n. sp. 2. a. Ocecium. 
Fig. 3. Mucronella spinosissima, Hincks, form major; group of cells, 
showing the tubules in the front wall. 3a. Primary cell. 36. 
Zocecium, showing the position of the ovicell behind the tubular 
orifice. 
Fig. 4. Lagenipora spinulosa, n. sp. 
Puate lV. 
1. Mucronella prelucida, n. sp. 
2. Mucronella prelonga, n. sp. 
Fig. 3. Smittia spathulifera, u. sp. 
4, Porella marsunm, MacGillivray, form porifera. 
5. Porella major, n. sp. 
VI.—Lepidoptera from the Island of Nias. 
By Arruur G. Butter, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &e. 
THE following species from the Island of Nias have recently 
been added to the collection of the British Museum :— 
HurLainz. 
Caduga funeralis, sp. n. 
Nearly ailied to C. Banksii, Moore (frorfi Sumatra), but 
differing much as Purantica eryx does from P. agleoides, the 
wings being of a narrower and more elegant form, with the 
whole of the greenish-white markings much narrower; the 
abdomen a little browner. Expanse of wings 86 millim. 
Salatura eurydice, sp. n. 
Primaries above most like S. nubila of Gilolo, but the 
reddish area of the primaries of a lurid mahogany-red colour, 
more restricted, divided into three well-marked areoles by the 
median vein and its first branch, which are very broadly 
black-bordered, and bounded on costa and inner margin by 
