26 Transactions. — Zoology. 



rounded ; whitisb-ochreous, slightly reddish-tinged ; lines mar- 

 gined with reddish-ochreous, sharply dentate, very indistinct; 

 orbicular moderate, round, margined with reddish-ochreous, 

 containing a blackish dot near anterior edge ; claviform sub- 

 oval, margined with reddish-ochreous ; reniform oblong, mar- 

 gined first with blackish, then with whitisb-ochreous, then 

 reddish-fuscous ; a faint median shade ; a series of dark fuscous 

 dots on veins beyond second line ; subterminal very obscure, 

 with two distinct very acute dentations touching hindmargin 

 below middle, above and below which is a reddish-fuscous patch 

 on hindmargin ; a hind-marginal row of dark fuscous lunules : 

 cilia reddish-fuscous, barred with whitish-ochreous. Hindwings 

 grey, reddish-tinged ; cilia whitish, basal half reddish. 



Castle Hill and Lake Wakatipu, in January and February ; 

 five specimens. 



40. Main, lignana, Walk. 



(Hadena lignana, Walk., Noct., 758; 7 Xylophasia morosa, Butl., Cist. 



Ent. ii., 543.) 



Male, female. — 38-39 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs whitish, irrorated with ochreous-grey and a 

 few black scales ; face with a dark fuscous baud ; palpi 

 externally mixed with blackish ; autenu^ in male filiform, 

 moderately ciliated ; thorax with moderately large anterior and 

 small posterior crests ; anterior tarsi with two apical joints 

 black, spurs with black bands. Forewings moderately dilated, 

 costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, obliquely 

 rounded ; ochreous-grey, densely and suffusedly irrorated with 

 whitish ; lines dark-margined, indistinct ; spots obscurely dark- 

 margined laterally ; orbicular roundish, claviform semicircular, 

 reniform oblong, marked beneath with a roundish blackisli-grey 

 spot ; an obscure median shade ; subterminal suffusedly dark- 

 margined, except beneath apex and below middle, with two 

 acute dentations touching hindmargin below middle ; a hind- 

 marginal row of black dots : cilia ochreous-grey, barred with 

 ochreous-whitish. Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia 

 white, with a cloudy grey line. 



Wellington and Mount Hutt, in March ; five specimens. 



41. Mam. iististnga, Walk. 

 (Xylina ustistriga, Walk., Noct., 630; X. lignisecta, ib., 631.) 



Male, female. — 40-46 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey, 

 sometimes more or less suffused with fuscous-reddish ; thorax 

 with moderate anterior and slight posterior crests. AntennsB 

 grey, in male with short triangular transverse dentations (^), 

 moderately ciliated. Abdomen whitish-grey or whitish-ochreous, 

 reddish-tinged. Legs reddish-grey, irrorated with whitish. 

 Forewings moderately dilated, costa almost straight, apex 



