216 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. XIV. — On New Species of Lepidoptera. 

 By E. Meybick, B.A., F.Z.S. 



\Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th November, 



1S91.-] 



I A^i again indebted to Mr. G. V. Hudson for the following 

 additions to the New Zealand fauna ; the specimens described 

 were kindly presented by him to me, and of all he possesses 

 other similar specimens ; they were all taken in the neighbour- 

 hood of Wellington. I am glad to take this opportunity of 

 expressing my sense of the services rendered by Mr. Hudson 

 to entomological science, and my thanks for the generosity 

 with which he has assisted me in obtaining material for the 

 elucidation of the Lepidoptera. 



MONOCTENIAD^. 



Dichromodes petrina, n. sp. 



S $ . 20mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs rather dark grey, irrorated with whitish-ochreous ; 

 palpi ?>}t, base ochreous-white ; antennal pectinations of ,3] 5 ; 

 posterior extremity of thorax ochreous-white. Forewings 

 triangular, hindmargin straight above, rounded beneath ; 

 rather dark grey, densely irrorated with whitish-ochreous; 

 veins partially suffusedly streaked with yellow-ochreous, more 

 strongly in (^^ ; a small blackish-grey spot on base of costa ; 

 lines formed by absence of pale irroration, more blackish on 

 costa, irregularly waved, first slightly curved, second shghtly 

 curved on upper half; a small cloudy transverse dark-grey 

 discal spot ; subterniinal pale, obscure, irregularly waved : 

 ciHa grey, irrorated with whitish-ochreous. Hindwings with 

 hindmargin rounded ; grey, darker and ashy-tinged posteriorly 

 traces of a pale w^aved line at t ; cilia grey, sprinkled with 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Two specimens. 



SELIDOSEMID^. 



For reasons which I have explained elsewhere, it is neces- 

 sary to substitute the generic name Sclidosevia, Hb., for Boar- 

 mia, Tr., and to alter the family name to correspond. 



Selidosema aristarcha, n. sp. 



g- . 37mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs pale 

 ochreous, back of crown and anterior part of thorax darker ; 



