184 Transactions. — ZooIocjtj. 



triaugular patch on costa before middle ; some scattered irre- 

 gular blackish dots, mostly on posterior f of fold, and in a 

 longitudinal series in posterior half of disc : cilia light grey or 

 ochreous-grey-whitish, round apex and on costa reddish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings and cilia grey or ochreous-grey-whitish. 



Var. a. Forewings sufi'used with dark purplish - fuscous, 

 with a bright reddish-ochreous streak along inner margin. 



Larva 14-legged, moderate, cylindrical, tapering at both 

 ends ; dull grey-greenish or grey-yellowish ; dorsal darker ; 

 subdorsal broad, grey, or obsolete ; head and plate on second 

 segment dark fuscous. Feeds between spun-together shoots 

 or leaves of Coriaria ruscifolia, C. thymifolia, and C. angus- 

 tissima, in January. 



Napier, Wellington, Arthur's Pass (3,000ft.), Christ- 

 church, and Invercargill ; from December to February, com- 

 mon. I bred the species in abundance from the larvae ; other- 

 wise I could scarcely have credited the unusual larval habit. 



45. Grac. leucocyma, n. sp. 



? . 9mm. Head and palpi white. Antennae fuscous, be- 

 neath white. Thorax light grey. Abdomen whitish. Legs 

 dark grey, ringed with white, posterior tibiae white. Fore- 

 wings elongate, very narrow, pointed ; grey ; markings snow- 

 white ; a rather broad irregular streak along inner margin 

 from base to apex, interrupted before middle by a very oblique 

 indistinct line of ground-colom- ; eight short more or less 

 wedge-shaped streaks from costa, first from ^, slenderly pro- 

 duced on costa towards base, first four outwardly oblique, re- 

 mainder inwardly oblique, second and fourth reaching half 

 across wing, the rest much shorter ; a small irregular blackish 

 apical dot, preceded by a white dot : cilia ochreous-grey- 

 whitish, round apex whiter, with indications of two dark 

 fuscous lines. Hindwings whitish-gi-ey ; cilia ochreous-grey- 

 wdiitish. 



Auckland, in December ; one specimen. Although super- 

 ficially resembling the following species, it is not really closely 

 allied. 



§ B. Vein 7 of hindwings out of 6. 



46. Grac. a'ellomaclia, Meyr. 



{Gracilaria acllomacha, Meyr.,"Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.," 1880, 158.) 



<? $ . 7-9mm. Head and palpi snow^- white, palpi with 

 apex of second joint and a subapical ring of terminal joint 

 black. Thorax snow - white, with a small black spot on 

 shoulder. Forewings snow-white ; markings fuscous, irrorated 

 with dark fuscous ; a cloudy central longitudinal streak from 

 near base to disc above anal angle, more or less obsolete to- 

 wards base, connecting obscurely with about seven oblique 



