24 Transactions. — Zoology. 



36. Mam. omojdaca, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 40-41 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark 

 reddish-fuscous, sometimes blackish-tinged ; thorax with rather 

 large double anterior crest, an anterior black anteriorly ochreous- 

 margined angulated line, apex of anterior angles ochreous- 

 whitish. Antennas fuscous, in male submoniliform, moderately 

 ciliated. Abdomen grey, and tuft reddish-whitish. Legs 

 reddish-fuscous mixed with blackish, anterior pair ochreous- 

 whitish, with three apical joints of tarsi black. Forewings 

 moderately dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hind- 

 margin waved, obliquely rounded ; reddish-fuscous ; a short 

 black median streak from base, margined above with ochreous- 

 white ; space between this and costa marked with suffused 

 ochreous-whitish lines ; in one specimen a blackish suffusion 

 extending from base of inner margin obliquely to orbicular and 

 reniform, space between this and subterminal line suffused with 

 pale whitish-ochreous ; orbicular and reniform blackish-fuscous, 

 black-margined, connected by a blackish-fuscous spot ; orbicular 

 large, roundish ; reniform with outer edge white ; claviform 

 small, suboval, blackish-fuscous ; lines indistinct ; subteiminal 

 obscurely paler or hardly traceable, with two somewhat acute 

 dentations below middle ; hind-marginal space mixed with 

 blackish-fuscous : cilia reddish-fuscous mixed with blackish. 

 Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia grey- whitish, with a grey line. 



Lake Coleridge and Eakaia, in December, February, and 

 March ; three specimens. 



37. Ma7n. dotata, Walk. 



(Dasypolia dotata, Walk., Noct., 522.) 



Female. — 42 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs dark fuscous, 

 somewhat mixed with reddish, whitish-ochreous, and black. 

 Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings mode- 

 rately dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 crenulate, obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous, reddish-tinged ; a 

 blackish suffused spot on inner margin at l^ ; lines somewhat 

 paler, obscurely blackish-margined ; orbicular large, oblique- 

 oval, partially finely margined with whitish and then with 

 black ; claviform moderate, triangular, black-margined ; reni- 

 form oblong, partially white-margined, posteriorly strongly, 

 then with black, containing a cloudy reddish-whitish median 

 Hne ; a tolerably distinct median shade ; space between second 

 and subterminal lines paler, mixed with reddish-whitish, cut 

 by an acute triangular dark fuscous mark on submedian fold ; 

 subterminal cloudy, whitish-ochreous, dark-margined, waved, 

 regular ; a fine black waved submarginal line, anteriorly finely 

 margined with obscure pale ochreous marks ; a hind-marginal 

 series of minute ochreous-whitish dots on veins : cilia dark 



