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good condition; but he has sent me a fresh female, from which 

 it is evident that the specimen I originally described is so much 

 bleached that the description can hardly be applied to the 

 fresh insect : I therefore redescribe it. 



5 . 18-21mm. Head ochreous-yellowish. Palpi pale 

 yellowish, second joint irrorated with fuscous on lower half. 

 AntennaB fuscous. Thorax fuscous, apex of patagia and a 

 posterior spot yellowish. Abdomen grey. Legs grey, posterior 

 pair whitish-yellowish. Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, 

 costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin rather 

 strongly oblique, slightly rounded; pale ochreous-yellowish, 

 suffused with reddish-fuscous except towards costa anteriorly ; 

 a moderate well-defined clear ochreous-yellowish streak 

 along inner margin from base to near anal angle, attenuated 

 posteriorly, its upper margin triangularly indented before 

 middle and edged by a darker reddish-fuscous suffusion ; an 

 obscure darker dot in disc at f , and a second at -|, connected 

 by an obscure pale line ; faint indications of an angulated 

 posterior darker line, indented above m.iddle : cilia reddish- 

 fuscous, irrorated with yellow-whitish. Hindwings and cilia 

 grey. 



It would not surprise me much to find that this was the 

 other sex of (JHc. phccjopliylla. 



Mccyna deprivalis, Walk. I found the larva of this species 

 commonly near Nelson, feeding on So2Jhthora {Leguminosa), 

 and give the description in full detail, to allow of comparison 

 with the larvte of closely-allied exotic species. Larva 16-legged, 

 elongate, cylindrical, slightly tapering towards ends, with very 

 long scattered whitish hairs ; dull liglit bluish-green, seg- 

 mental incisions more yellowish ; an irregular raised white 

 line above spiracles, becoming yellowish towards incisions, 

 and obscurely margined with yellowish elsewhere above ; seg- 

 ments 3-4 with one, 5-12 with two large raised black spots on 

 each side of back, each spot marked with a white dot on each 

 side, posterior spot of 12th segment white, black-centred and 

 with a black rim ; beneath anterior of these spots a large 

 raised black spot on each segment ; beneath this on segments 

 3-4 two moderate raised black spots, on segments 5-12 a 

 black dot surrounded with whitish ; on 12th segment a black 

 dot on supraspiracular line, beneath which is another black 

 dot surrounded with whitish, and enclosed beneath by a semi- 

 circular black rim ; spiracles black, surrounded by a circular 

 whitish spot enclosed with a black rim ; head testaceous ; 

 second segment grey- whitish, irregularly streaked and spotted 

 with black ; anal segment grey-whitish, dotted with black. 



This larva is therefore conspicuously distinct from that of 

 the Australian M. ])olygonalis. 



