380 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [May 1, 



greater part of those sent to me seem new. It may be that the 

 locality where Mr. Fereday collects is different from those which 

 Messrs. Bolton, Colenso, and Sinclair visited, or that I have not 

 been able to recognize many of them, from the too often little-precise 

 descriptions by Mr. Walker." It is possible that, as I constantly 

 have Mr. Walker's types to compare with his descriptions, it may be 

 easier for me to determine those which we do not possess than it is for 

 a foreigner ; but I can scarcely comprehend M. Guenee failing to 

 recognize so many as he has done, if he really tried to identify them. 

 Mr. F. Moore has very kindly assisted me in the determination of 

 some of the more obscure genera, chiefly of Noctuites and Geome- 

 trites, to which groups I have as yet been able to devote but little 

 time. 



Sphingid^. 



1. PrOTOPARCE DISTANS. 



Sphinx convolvuli, var. distans, Butler, Zool. Ereb. and Terror, 

 Ins. p. 30 (1874). 



Hawk's Bay, North Island. In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. 

 Enys, Esq. 



iEGERIIDiE. 



2. JilGERIA TIPULIFORMIS. 



Sphinx tipuliformis, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 289, n. 1096. 

 In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



Nyctemerid^. 



3. Secusio anntjlata. 



Leptosoma annulatum, Boisduval, Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, pi. v. 

 fig 9 (1853). 



In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



This species certainly agrees better with Walker's genus Secusio 

 than with Nyctemera, to which hitherto it has been referred. 



Hepialid^. 



4. Charagia virescens. 



Hepialus virescens, Doubledav, Dieff. N. Zeal. ii. App. p. 284, 

 n. 114 (1843). 



North Island. In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



One of Dr. Hector's examples is of a sandy ochraceous colour ; but 

 in all probability this coloration is not natural. 



Felder's Charagia fischeri is the C ruhroviridans of Walker. 



5. Charagia hectori, n. sp. 



Size, form, and general coloration of C. ruhroviridans, but the 

 primaries covered all over with transverse interrupted ferruginous- 

 bordered whitish bands. Thorax and primaries sap-green, the latter 

 crossed by about five macular transverse bands, but ill-defined on 



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