118 Transactions. 



MlCROPTERYGIDAE. 



Sabatinca rosicoma n. sp. 



cJ$. 7 mm. Head whitish - ochreous suffused with purplish - rosy. 

 Papli ochreous- whitish. Antennae ochreous-whitish, in $ greyish-suffused, 

 in $ with dark-fuscous bands above and below middle. Thorax deep 

 purple, anterior margin golden. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings ovate- 

 lanceolate ; deep purple, with coppery-bronze reflections ; base narrowly 

 whitish ; a subtriangular whitish blotch on dorsum in middle of wing, its 

 apex subtruncate, reaching half across wing ; in <J whitish dots on costa 

 before middle and at f : cilia grey, at apex with a whitish spot. Hind- 

 wings dark purple-fuscous ; cilia dark fuscous. 



Kaeo, in January (Hudson) ; four specimens (1 $, 3 $). 



Art. XVIII. — Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera. 



By Alfred Philpott. 



Communicated by Dr. W. B. Benham, F.E.S. 



[Bead before the Otago Institute, 7th October, 1913.] 



Hydriomenidae. 

 Tatosoma fasciata sp. nov. 



cJ$. 31 mm. Head and thorax dull greyish-green. Palpi elongate, in 

 3 2, in $ 3, brownish-green mixed with grey. Antennae ochreous. Abdo- 

 men grey. Forewings, costa strongly arched at base, termen sinuate above 

 middle, oblique, in <$ greyish-green, in $ white ; a thin irregular black line 

 near base, its extremity produced shortly along dorsum, posteriorly mar- 

 gined with ochreous, especially near dorsum ; an obscure whitish basal 

 line ; median band broad, blackish-brown, its anterior margin from f costa 

 to \ dorsum, irregular, in $ widely indented at middle and oblique at dor- 

 sum, posterior margin from before f costa to f dorsum, moderately angled 

 above middle ; an elongate black discal dot ; three or four indistinct waved 

 dark-green lines between basal line and median band, in $ more distinct and 

 suffused with ochreous ; in $ median band margined on both sides with 

 ochreous and broadly centred with ground-colour ; subterminal line indis- 

 tinct, waved, white, preceded by two or more obscure dark-greenish lines, 

 in $ these are ochreous and the termen also broadly ochreous ; a series of 

 paired black dots along termen : cilia grey with darker line. Hindwings 

 shining white, in $ with faint broad median and terminal shades ; lobe 

 in (J J : cilia shining white. 



Not very closely related to any other species of Tatosoma ; compared 

 with the other small-lobed forms, it is distinguished from tipulata by the 

 posterior edge of the median band not being bent obliquely outwards near 

 dorsum, and from topea by the white hindwings and elongate palpi. 



Lake McKenzie, in November. $ and $ types, the only specimens at 

 present known, taken by Messrs. M. 0. Pasco and J. Speden. 



Venusia dissimilis sp. nov. 



cJ$. 35 mm. Head ochreous-brown. Palpi black. Antennae fuscous, 

 whitish in $. Thorax and abdomen brown mixed with ochreous and grey. 



