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Art. IX. — New Lepidoptera. 



By Charles E. Clarke. 



[Read before the Otago histitute, 9th December, 1919 ; received by Editor, 31st December, 



1919 ; issued separately, 4th June, 1920.] 



Hydriomenidae. 



Tatosoma monoviridisata n. sp. 



cJ ?. 31-32 mm. Head and thorax olive-green. Antennae : proximal 

 third olive-green, tips brownish. Palpi nearly 3 mm. Abdomen varying 

 green above, irrorated with dark-brown scales with lateral dorsal tufts of 

 brown-grey hairs at each segment, especially noticeable on fourth, fifth, 

 sixth, and terminal segments. Forewings oUve-green, elongate, costa 

 rounded, hind-margin obliquely rounded ; several transverse wavy dentate 

 darker - greenish stripes, convex externally near middle, the most con- 

 spicuous being at ^, before f , and at f ; a series of double dots around 

 termen. Hindwings in $ small, elongate, grey, tinged with greenish termin- 

 ally ; an indistinct greenish band at f ; lobe of hindwings in cJ 3 mm. 

 long ; all ciha light green. 



The palpi of this species are shorter than in T. tipulata, but the lobe of 

 the hindwing is as small as in tipulata. 



Twelve specimens were beaten from Coriaria on the Waitati Water 

 Reserve in October and November, 1918, and three in 1919. 



MiCROPTERYGIDAB. 



Sabatinca lucilia n. sp. 



12 mm. Head, face, and palpi covered with long bronze-brown hair. 

 Antennae purplish tending to brown at tips. Thorax brown, densely 

 covered with long brown hair. Abdomen grey-blackish along sides. Legs 

 ochreous tinged with grey-blackish. Forewings ovate-lanceolate, costa bent 

 abruptly near base, arched, apex less acute than in incongruella ; basal area 

 to nearly \ ochreous suffused with ruby banded by abrupt black trans- 

 verse line ; an ochreous-grey band slightly suffused with ruby reaching to 

 nearly ^, widening on dorsum; a dark fascia bordered blackish-grey, con- 

 stricted both sides at middle and narrowed on anal margin ; at f another 

 light-grey band' slightly tinged with orange but broken in centre by longi- 

 tudinal blackish stripe ; a transverse blackish - bordered ochreous band, 

 beyond which to apex light grey slightly tinged with orange ; cilia ochreous 

 with dark-greyish -brown bars in continuation of the dark markings on the 

 wings. Hindwings dark grey suffused with violet, brighter towards apex ; 

 ciha dark grey with a few orange hairs. 



My first specimen, rather worn, I took at the electric light at Waitomo 

 Hotel on the 25th December, 1916. During the second week of January, 

 1919, I took six specimens in good condition on a sunny moss-covered clay 

 bank at Kauri Gully, Auckland. The season was an exceptionally late one, 

 and normally the species would probably be at its best quit6 a month earlier. 



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