1877.] 



ON BIRDS FROM THE MARaUESAS ISLANDS. 



407 



139. Platyptilus repletalis. 



Platyptilus repletalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xxx. p. 931 (1864). 

 Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



140. ACIPTILUS monospilalis. 



Aciptilus monospilalis. Walker, Lep. Het. xxx. p. 950 (1864). 



Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



I believe A. patruelis of Felder to be this species overcoloured. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XLII. 



Fig. 1. Meterana fictula J, p. 38(5. 



2. G-raphiphoru tartarcea <S , p. 



384. 



3. Apamea vifiosa <? , p. 384. 



4. EucUdia heetori 2 , p- 387. 



5. Agrofis viifis $ , p. 383. 



6. Hadena dchilis J , p. 385. 



Fig. 7. Porina enysii cJ, p. 381. 



8. Fidonia ferox $, p. 392. 



9. enysii 9, p. 39L 



10. Gonodontis felix ? , p. .389. 



11. Herniinia Ulacina S, p. 388. 



12. Bityla sericea $ , p. 387. 



Plate XLIII. 



Fig. 1. Aspilafes msiffjiis c?, p. 393. 



2. Fidonia catapi/rrha, p. 392. 



3. anccps, p. 392. 



4. Cacopsodos niger, p. 39.5. 



5. Beclana Feredayi, p. 398. 

 (). Cidaria beata, p. 397. 



7. Cramhus vulgaris (enlarged), 



p. 4lJt). 



8. Pseudocore)aia indistincta, p. 



394. 



9. Hypocludda comipta (en- 



larged), p. 399. 



10. Aphomia strigosa, p. 398. 



11. EromcHC mctalUfera (en- 



larged), p. 401. 



Fig. 12. 

 13. 



14. 



15. 



16. 



17. 



18. 



Ckilo simiylex, p. 400. 



Caco'icia inana (enlarged), 

 p. 403. 



Tachyptilia atychioides (en- 

 larged), p. 405. 



Caco'icia vilis (enlarged), p. 

 402. 



Gracilaria linearis (enlarged), 

 p. 406. 



Zdothcrses ? robusia (en- 

 larged), p. 403. 



Sfeganopfgcka ? negligens 

 (enlarged), j). 404. 



3. On a small Collectiou of Birds from the Marquesas 

 Islands. By Otto Finsch, Ph.D.j C.M.Z.S., Director 

 of tlie Bremen Museum. 



[Eeceived April 12, 1877.] 



Through the Museum Godeffroy, at Hamburg, I have received a 

 small collection of birds in alcohol, made by Mr. A. Garrett, the 

 well-known naturalist of that Museum, during a visit to the Marquesas 

 Islands. As our knowledge of the Marquesas birds is still very limited, I 

 think it will be of interest to report on this collection, the more so as 

 it contains, with the exception of four species {Coriphilus smaragdinus, 

 Eudynamis tailianus, Serresius galeatus, and Phlegcenas rubescens), 

 examples of all the land-birds known to inhabit this group, which 



