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96 MEMOIES O F T H E NATIONAL ACADEMY O F SCIENCES. band extremely irregular ^-shaped, black, with yellow and white external border; fringe gray, heavily spotted with black at base; a cream-colored spot at extremity of first median branch; secondaries crossed in the middle by a broad black Y-shaped band, the furca of which is filled by a hyaline-white spot, the outer edge partly margined with yellowish white; a white bordered oblique black 5 shaped subapical stripe; fringe white, with an interrupted black basal stripe; a ' creamy white spot at extremity of first median branch; body above fnhginous-brown, metathorax white; antennae and legs of male whitish with blackish bands; of female pale brown; the legs whitish below; venter white; wings of male below suffused with white, so that the markings, especially of the primaries, are extiemely indistinct; expanse of wings S 1 9 millimeters, 9 1 6 millimeters. In general appearance this species somewhat resembles FELDEE'S Oeratoclasis barbicomis, next to which, I think, it ought to stand." IDENTrPICATION O F T H E SPECIMENS OF D E . PALISA'S O E I G I N A L OOLLEOTION. A letter received from Dr. P A L I S A , dated Vienna, December 1,1883, gives a bnef account of the identifications of his collection of 1 5 specimens, which have been made by Professor EOGENHOFEE. 1. Diadema bolina, L . 2. Cyllo {Melamtts Fab.), Leda L . , var. taitensis, FELD. 3. Sphynx conmVouU, L . 4. Macroglossa. 5. Utetheaia pulchella, L . 6. Prodenia, sp. 7. Spodoptera achronyctmdes, GuL. 8. Achaea Mehcerte, Am., v. ligrina, FAB. 9. Bemigia frtigaKs, FAB. 10. Botys. 11. Botys phaeopteralisf 12. Aethaloessa meridionalts. WALK. 13. Oeratoclasis, new sp. 14. Hymenia (Zinlconia) alhfasdahs. 15. Tinea. }7. CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS - OF T H E SEA-WATER IN T H E LAGOON AT CAROLINE ISLAND. (Determined by Messrs S T I L L W E L L AND G L A D D I N G } A sample of water from the lagoon was brought home by Mr. U P T O N and submitted for chemical analysis to Messrs. STILLWELL & GLADDING, analytical and consulting chemists, New York. The following is their report of the analysis: "NEW YORK, August 8, 1 8 8 3 . "Eesult of analysis of a sample of lagoon water from Caroline Island : Per cent. i 1.895 Chlonne (dupbcate determinations) ( 1 896 Calcium oxide 0.057 Magnesium oxide 0- 2 2 0 Sulphuric oxide 0.219
