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Ichneutica cana n. sp. 



<J ; 44 mm. ; one specimen. Face grey. Palpi blackish at base. 

 Head and thorax grey, frontal area lighter grey. Head and thorax densely 

 clothed with long dark-grey hair. Thorax broad in proportion to length, 

 with a slight posterior crest. Abdomen grey. Forewings grey, with pale- 

 grey lines and occasional darker marks. A single light-grey line at base ; 

 a jagged grey line about i, strongly dentate near dorsum ; outwardly 



suffused with dark grey. Orbicular 

 faintly shown in light grey, and 

 separated from reniform by a distinct 

 dark-grey patch. Eeniform faintly out- 

 lined in light grey. A jagged light- 

 grey line at f , bending towards termen 

 until centre of wing, then inwards before 

 reaching dorsum. Terminal edge mar- 

 gined with light grey, edged basally 

 with a dark suffusion, which forms a faintly defined line ; slight grey marks 

 along veins where they reach termen. Cilia short, light grey and dark grey 

 alternate patches. Hindwings light grey with a faint ochreous ting§, a darker 

 band across wing at J and a slightly waved subterminal band. Terminal 

 edge and cilia grey- white. Underside grey with a faint ochreous tinge and 

 a well-defined irregular dark-grey line at about § across both wings. 



A single specimen of this fine moth netted in brilliant sunshine on the 

 Hector Mountains, Wakatipu district, 20th November, 1911. 



Ichneutica cana. (Natural size.) 







Pseudocoremia maculosa n. sp. 



cJ ; 35 mm. Face fuscous. Head white with fuscous patch behind base 

 of antennae ; shafts of antennas fuscous at base, then mixed with white 

 and fuscous to tips ; pectinations fuscous. Thorax fuscous anteriorly, then 

 silvery-white with two slight fuscous marks, then a dark -fuscous cross-line 

 followed by another silvery-white area. Abdomen grey-white with a narrow 

 patch of fuscous from apex of each segment, which are posteriorly grey- 

 white. Wings silvery- white, faintly lined and stippled with ferruginous- 

 fuscous, and where lines cross veins at centre 

 of wing sharply marked with black. Basal 

 patch silvery- white sharply edged by a dark- 

 fuscous patch which is outwardly suffused. 

 Indistinct lines at i and J ; well-defined 

 lines at \ and §, black-marked where they 

 cross the veins. Then follows a white area 

 suffused at centre of wing. Subterminal line 

 waved, suffused outwardly almost to apex, ^^ZmllsZTf ™' 



the lower part of the subterminal area 



stippled with ferruginous - fuscous. A terminal series of black lunules. 

 Cilia (damaged) apparently grey and fuscous-white mixed. Eeniform repre- 

 sented by a black streak. Hindwings grey-white faintly stippled with 

 ferruginous-fuscous. Discal spot small and faintly marked. Two faint 

 subterminal lines, termen dark-edged, cilia fuscous-grey. 



A single male specimen netted at Queenstown, Wakatipu district, 20th 

 November, 1910. Mr. M. Pasco has another specimen from the same 

 locality. 



Close to Pseudocoremia leucelae and P. monacha, but abundantly distinct. 





