378 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Geometrina. 



Gonoykylla nelsonaria. 



One specimen only last season, taken in Botanical Gardens 

 during February. Generally appears this month for a short 

 period onlv. I took none the season before. I have now 

 twelve specimens. 



TOKTRICINA. 



Nymplios tola galactina . 



This pretty and once-rare little insect, which has already 

 been amply described by Meyrick (vol. xvi. of the Transac- 

 tions), I found very plentiful in the Wellington Botanical 

 Gardens only. It appears on the wing at dusk where the 

 swamps exist. The food-plant I am uncertain of, though 

 Professor Hutton bred his from a green pupa on Myrtus 

 hvUata ; but all my moths I found settling on the leaves of 

 Pittosjwrnm tenwifotmm and Griselinia Ivcida, which they had 

 flown up to from the swamps below. It is taken from early 

 in December till February, but this past season I saw none 

 after January had gone by, as some of the nights were cold. 

 On 16th December — a very mild night — I took sixteen, and 

 could have gone on securing nothing else, though on an 

 average I seldom saw more than two about in one evening. 

 I have obtained thirty in three seasons. The wing-measure- 

 ment varies from 14 to 18 lines across from tip to tip. The 

 dark-grey spot which is mentioned by Meyrick, and found in 

 the disc of the middle of the upper wing, is hardly visible in 

 some of my specimens, appearing as if only spotted with faint 

 minute dots at intervals ; otherwise I have no other varieties 

 in this species. 



Heterocrossa eriphylla. 



Five specimens last season, taken near last locality. It 

 seems very fond of settling on the trunks of weeping-willows 

 in the daytime. I have never taken it at night. I have 

 twenty specimens, all taken during the day from December to 

 April. 



EjjalxipJLora axenana. 



Five specimens last season, locality of Wellington, found 

 on broom and other plants. Varies very much in markings on 

 wings; flies at night-time, from October to March. Twelve 

 specimens taken. 



TiNEINA, 



Semiocosma epiphanes. 



Four specimens last season, found throughout the district. 

 It is fond of sitting on palings and tree-trunks, appearing from 

 October to February, in the daytime, when I took mine, which 

 now number thirteen. 



