Metkiok. — On New Zealand Lepidoptera. 213 



Eakaia (coll. Fereday). The larva constructs a case 

 covered with pieces of stick, and feeds on low shrubs. 



SPHINGINA. 



Sphingid^. 



Ocelli absent. Antennas short, swollen towards middle or 

 posteriorly, apex more or less bent into a slender hook. No 

 maxillary palpi. Abdomen large, conical. Forewings with 

 vein 1 furcate towards base, 2 from near middle of cell, 5 from 

 near middle of transverse vein, parallel to 4, 6 from point with 

 or out of 8, 7 out of 8, 9 out of 10 or absent (coincident with 10). 

 Hindwings with frenulum developed, in S simple, in 2 sex- 

 tuple ; Ic absent, 5 from near middle of transverse vein, 6 and 

 7 from a point or stalked, 8 connected with cell by a trans- 

 verse oblique bar towards base. 



The only New Zealand representative of this family is a 

 nearly cosmopolitan insect, possessing great powers of flight, 

 which enable it to cioss wide seas. 



5. Sphinx, L. 



Tongue well developed. Eyes sometimes with marginal 

 cilia. Antennae ^, swollen towards apex, in c? ciliated. 

 Labial palpi moderate, ascending, very densely scaled, terminal 

 joint concealed. Thorax with small tufts on each side of 

 posterior margin. Abdomen without anal tuft. Anterior and 

 middle tibiae sometimes spinose, posterior tibiae with all spurs 

 present. 



12. S2)Ji. convolvuli, L. 

 (Protoparcc distmis, Butl.) 



(? o . 88-96mm. Head and thorax grey ; metathoracic 

 tufts black, edged in front with bluish and behind with 

 ochreous-whitish. Abdomen above rosy, posterior margin of 

 segments, except apical, broadly blackish, base of second seg- 

 ment whitish, an uninterrupted dorsal stripe and two apical 

 segments grey. Forewings very elongate-triangular, costa 

 posteriorly moderately arched, apex rectangular, hindmargin 

 very obliquely rounded, waved ; rather light brownish-grey ; 

 nine more or less well-indicated strongly and irregularly 

 dentate darker grey or dark fuscous transverse lines, some- 

 what parallel to hindmargin but angulated above middle — ^viz., 

 two before J, very indistinct, two before middle, little marked, 

 three about f , of which two are well marked, and two sub- 

 terminal, more or less obsolete and broken up to form irregular 

 rings ; two long black longitudinal lines beneath middle of 

 disc ; an irregular oblique somewhat interrupted black line 

 from apex towards disc : cilia grey, barred with dark fuscous 

 and white. Hindwings gi-ey- whitish, more or less suifused 

 with grey posteriorly ; three blackish fasciee, first at J, angu- 



