I(j2 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Feb. 18, 



bright ochreous, with lateral black cuneiform anterior borders, the 

 second, third, and sometimes the fourth of which unite in the middle 

 of the dorsal line so as to form transverse belts. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 3 lines. 



Five examples. 



The anal segment in A. analis and A. chloropyga is blue-black. 

 Of these two species, the first occurs in Ceram and Amboina, and the 

 second at Port Macquarie (New S. Wales). 



Neochera EUGENIA, Cramer, Pap. Exot. pi. 398. fig. M. 



The examples from New Ireland vary slightly in the inward dif- 

 fusion of the blue-black border of the posterior wings, the %vhole 

 interno-raediau area in some specimens being streaked with blue 

 and grey. 



Cleis posticalis, Guerin, Voy. Coquille, p. 286, pi. 18. fig. o. 



One female. 



Cleis lunigera, n. sp. 



Allied to C. arctata. Chocolate-brown, wings above with a faint 

 purplish gloss ; primaries with a large semicircular orange patch, 

 almost crossing the wing in an oblique direction beyond the middle ; 

 secondaries generally with a squamose indication of an orange sub- 

 marginal belt : wings below blacker than above, brilliantly shot with 

 purple ; primaries with a more golden-orange semicircular patch ; 

 secondaries with a broad submarginal orange belt, not reaching the 

 apex ; body below orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Four specimens, hardly differing in pattern. 



Nyctemerid^. 

 Nyctemera baulus, Boisduval, Voy. del' Astrolabe, p. 200, n. a. 

 Four examples. The type was obtained at Bourou ; there is also 

 a specimen in the collection of the British Museum from Ternate. 



DeILEMERA ARTEMIS. 



Nyctemera artemis, Boisduval, Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, p. 199, n. 4. 

 Occurs also in New Guinea and Ceram. 



Euschemid^e'. 



Mniocera, n. gen. 



Allied to Craspedosis and, less closely, to Bursada ; from both it 



differs in its long slender palpi and extremely finely pectinated 



slenderer antennse : in Craspedosis, as in this genus, the antennae 



are rather ciliated than pectinated. Type Celerena cineta, Walk. 



Mniocera cinerescens, n. sp. 



Blue-black : primaries with three shining silver-grey abbreviated 

 bands across the internobasal area ; a rounded white spot with a 



' Always referred to the Bombycites, but in point of fact belonging to the 

 Greometrites. 



