28 Transactions. — Zoology. 



claviform obsolete ; reniform oblong, margined with white and 

 then with black ; subterminal indicated by suffused dark-grey 

 subdentate anterior margin throughout ; a hind-marginal 

 series of dark grey limules : cilia white, irrorated with grey. 

 Hindwings grey, slightly ochreous-tinged ; cilia whitish, with a 

 very faint grey line. 



Christchurch and Lake Coleridge, in December, February, 

 March, and June ; six specimens. 



44. Mam. cuculUna, Gn. 



{Xylocampa cucullina, Gn., Ent. Mo. Mag. v., 40 ; Agrotis mitis, Butl., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 383, pi. xlii., 5.) 



Male, female.— 31-32 mm. Head, palpi, antenna, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs dark grey iiTorated with white ; terminal 

 joint of palpi rather elongate ; antennae in male filiform, shortly 

 ciliated (i) ; thorax slightly crested. Forewings moderately 

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

 rounded ; grey, irrorated with white ; lines whitish, dark-mar- 

 gined, very indistinct ; a rather conspicuous darker median 

 shade ; spots margined first obscurely with white and then 

 with black ; orbicular round, claviform very small, semi-oval, 

 reniform curved oblong ; subterminal indicated by a posterior 

 suffused darker grey subdentate margin ; a hind-marginal row of 

 blackish lunules ; cilia ochreous-grey mixed with white. Hind- 

 wings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia whitish, with a grey line. 



Kakaia, in March ; three specimens. 



6. Ekana, Walk. 



Eyes hairy. Antennae in male filiform, simple, with scat- 

 tered single cilia. Thorax with anterior and posterior 

 crests. Abdomen with strong dorsal crests towards base. 

 Forewings in male beneath with a very long dense tuft 

 of scent-giving hairs from base ; transverse vein absent, 7 and 8 

 out of 9, 10 free. Hmdwings with transverse vein absent, costa 

 in male broadly dilated. 



45. Eran. graminosa, Walk. 

 (Erana graminosa, Walk., Noct., 605 ; E. vigens, ib., Suppl. 743.) 

 Male. — 30-33 mm. Head and thorax yellowish-green ; 

 thorax with small anterior and larger double posterior crest. 

 Palpi whitibh-ochreous, externally mixed with blackish. Anten- 

 nae fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, back towards apex 

 suffused with grey. Legs pale whitish-ochreous, greenish-tinged, 

 spotted with black. Forewings narrow, moderately dilated, 

 costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, obliquely 

 rounded ; light yellowish-green mixed with olive-green ; lines 

 whitish-tinged, partially black-margined, distinct; reniform 

 margined with white and then with black ; three clear white 



