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Show 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 manv 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. Gue'nee 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^E. 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. ./EGERIID^E. 2. .ZEGERIA TIPULIFORMIS. Sphinx tipuliformis, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 289, n. 1096. In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. NYCTE MERIDA. 3. SECUSIO ANNULATA. Leptosoma annulatum, Boisduval, Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, pl. 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^E. 4. C H A R A G I A VIRESCENS. Hepialus virescens, Doubleday, 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. rubroviridans of Walker. 5. CHARAGIA HECTORI, n. sp. Size, form, and general coloration of C. rubroviridans, 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 |