176 Mr. R. McLachlan on the 



ground-colour. Posterior wings greyer brown, with a large 

 round black eye in a yellow ring (whitish outside) enclosing 

 a large central space of a deep reddish-brown colour, crossed 

 by a slender white crescent and bordered with yellow scales. 

 This projects towards the middle of the inner margin in four 

 sharp prongs. Beyond the ocellus is a festooned black line, 

 beyond which is a broad reddish band, followed by a very 

 pale pink border, only interrupted by a reddish line at the 

 base of the fringes. 



Underside paler ; anterior wings with a large black central 

 spot of an irregular roundish shape, followed by the outer 

 oblique line, Avhich is brown, broader than above, and inter- 

 rupted by the yellowish nervures. Posterior wings with an 

 irregularly festooned line at two thirds of their length, and 

 faint traces of an outer one between this and the hind 

 margin. 



Hah. Brazil {Becke?'). 



Intermediate between the groups represented by A. nycti- 

 mene, Latr., and trene, Cram. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 



Fi'ff. 1. Buncea Mitfordi. 



Fig. 2. Gonimhrasia ruhricosiaUs. 



Fig. 3. Automeris quadridentata. 



XVIIT. — Supplementary Note on the Neuroptera of the 

 Hawaiian Islands. By Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. &c. 



In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, for October and November 

 1883 1 published a list of the species of Neuroptera known 

 to me from the Hawaiian Archi])elago, chiefly compiled from 

 materials collected by the Rev. T. Blackburn, who resided 

 there for several years. This was followed, in the Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist, for December 1884, by further notes and 

 descriptions by Mr. Blackburn himself; the new species 

 described in his paper remain unknown to me. 



Recently I have been able to examine some small addi- 

 tional material collected by Mr. Scott B. Wilson, an ardent 

 young ornithologist, who passed a considerable time in the 

 islands. The few insects obtained by him are not in good 

 condition ; but as they include a new species of ant-lion, a 

 family hitherto represented by a single species in the islands, 



