8 Transactions. — Zoology. 



obtuse, hindmargin waved, obliquely rounded ; light brownish- 

 ocbreous or fuscous ; sometimes two faint dentate darker lines 

 visible, approximated on inner margin ; a posterior curved series 

 of cloudy darker do':s, followed by pale points : cilia pale 

 ocbreous or fuscous, tips whitish. Hindwings pale brownish- 

 ochreous or fuscous ; ciha pLle ochrecus, tips whitish. 



Larva stout, glabrous ; 73llcw-cchreous, minutely speckled 

 with white ; dorsal obscurely fi.scous ; a very fine fuscous 

 subdorsui line, ec ged benes,th with white ; an obscure fuscous 

 shade above spiracles, darker posteriorly ; head yellow-ochreous. 

 Feeds within ..terns ot Aciphrlla coiensoi {l!mbeUifer(B). 



Christchurch, ^i.'k'Ji^, ^nd Mount Arthur (3,500 feet) ; from 

 November to March, common. 



4. Leuc. purdii, Frdy. 

 (Leucania purdii, Frdy., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1882, 195.) 



Male. — 46 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ferruginous, 

 thorax between patagia posteriorly grey-whitish. Anteange 

 whitish-ochreous, with moderate triangular transverse denta- 

 tions, terminBoing in tufts^of cilia. Abdomen greyish-ochreous, 

 slightly i-eddish-tiij-ed. JjO's c/all fuscous-crimson mixed with 

 dark grsy. Forewin3-3 modsrcte.y dilated, costa slightly sinuate, 

 apex obtuse, hindmargin cblicuely rounded ; light dull brownish- 

 crimson, with a few whitish s«.r.ies ; cost«, narrowly deep yellow, 

 more broadly near base ; ;. narrow deep yellow sujjfusion along 

 basal hall oi inner margin ; l moderately broad deep yellow 

 suffusion below middle rrom base to middle ; a moderately broad 

 deep yellow suflusion above middle from |- to f : cilia yellowish- 

 white, basal hah" pale reddish-ochreous. Hindwings dark grey ; 

 cilia pale ochreous-yellowisn, tips whitish. 



Dunedin ; one specimen, sent by Mr. Purdie. 



5. Leuc. atristriga, Walk. 



Xylina atristriga, Walk., Suppl., 756; i!/a7«e„<ra anf/poda, Feld., Eeis. Nov., 



pi. cix., 23.) 



Male, fe7}mle.~33-SG mm. Head, palpi, antennte and thorax 

 pale fuscous, tinged with ocbreous or reddish, sometimes irro- 

 rated with whitish ; antennas in male filiform, subserrate towards 

 base, moderately ciliaisd. Abdomen and legs greyish-ochreous, 

 spurs branded with blackish. Forev/ings moderately dilated, 

 costa hardly arched, apex abtuse, hindmargin waved, somewhat 

 oblique, rounded beneath ; light reddish-fuscous, towards inner 

 margin broadly mixed with whitish-ochreous, towards costa 

 paler and inorated with whitish, especiallj' near base ; a black 

 median streak from base to one-third, extremities attenuated ; 

 first and second hnes very faintly indicated, on costa marked by 

 two black doty, second with a series of inconspicuous minute 

 black dots ; all spots tolerably defined by pale margins partially 



