10 Transactions. — Zoology. 



8. Letic. phaula, n. sp. 



Male.— S8 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs light brownish-ochreous ; antennae with moderate tri- 

 angular longitudinal dentations, terminating in tufts of cilia. 

 Forewiugs moderately dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, 

 hindmargin somewhat oblique, rounded beneath ; rather light 

 fuscous, ochreous-tinged ; veins marked with scattered white 

 and black scales ; an obscure white dot at each extremity of 

 transverse vein ; a minute black dot towards inner margin at i ; 

 a posterior series of obscure minute black dots, bent above 

 middle : ciha fuscous, base more ochreous, tips whitish. Hind- 

 wings fuscous-grey, base somewhat hghter ; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, with a faint grey line, tips more whitish. 



Christchurch, in November ; two specimens ; bred from 

 tussock-grass. 



9. Leuc. alojm, n. sp. 



Male. — 41 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax reddish-fuscous, 

 mixed with ochreous-whitish ; face whitish-ochreous ; thorax, 

 posteriorly between patagia, grey- whitish. Antenn® ochreous- 

 whitish, flatly subdentate, moderately ciliated. Abdomen light 

 grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous, mixed with reddish. Legs 

 reddish-ochreous, mixed with grey. Forewiugs moderately 

 dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, 

 somewhat obHque, rounded beneath ; reddish-fuscous, slightly 

 ochreous-tinged ; costa somewhat irrorated with whitish ; a 

 black dot towards inner margin at \ ; reniform represented 

 by a subcrescentic whitish-ochreous mark, bordered beneath 

 by a cloudy dark-grey spot ; a posterior curved series of obscure 

 black dots : ciha reddish-fuscous, tips white. Hindwings dark 

 grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish, sHghtly reddish-tinged. 



Lake Coleridge and Lake Guy on, in March ; two specimens. 



10. Leuc. unica, Walk. 



(Leucania unica, Walk., Noct. 112, Butl., Voy. Ereb., pi. ix., 9 ; Nonagria 

 juncicolor, Gn., Ent. Mo. Mag., v. 2.) 



Male, female. — 34-35 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs whitish-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged ; 

 antennae in male moderately bipectinated, pectinations strongly 

 ciliated. Forewiugs moderately dilated, costa almost straight, 

 apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, somewhat oblique, rounded 

 beneath ; whitish-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged, sometimes 

 with a fcAV scattered black scales ; first Ime represented by three 

 pau-s of obscure black dots ; a posterior curved series of black 

 dots : cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings grey, more or less 

 tinged with whitish-ochreous ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 



Blenheim and Eakuia, in NovemLer ; nnie specimens. 



