420 Transactions. 



Art. XLIII. — Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera. 



By Alfred Philpott. 



Communicated by Dr. W. B. Benham, F.E.S. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 7th September, 1915.] 



-, ^. ^ Caradrinidae. 



Aletia cuneata n. sp. 



cJ$. 38-39 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey tinged with ochreoiis. 

 Antennae in <^ serrate, ciliated to apex, 1. Abdomen ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous. Forewings, costa almost straight, apex subacute, termen oblique, 

 evenly rounded ; ochreous-grey mixed with fuscous ; lines often very 

 obscure ; subbasal whitish, margined with fuscous on both sides, deeply 

 indented beneath costa ; first line outwardly oblique, strongly but irregu- 

 larly dentate, whitish-ochreous, posteriorly black-margined ; orbicular 

 annular, ochreous ; a suffused fuscous, irregularly dentate median shade ; 

 reniform filled with dark fuscous, pale-margined ; second line indicated 

 by a series of black-margined crescentic ochreous marks, excurved from 

 costa to below middle, thence incurved to dorsum ; veins more or less 

 clearly marked with alternate black and white or ochreous dots ; an 

 obscure ochreous subterminal line, dilated above tornus : cilia ochreous, 

 densely mixed with greyish-fuscous. Hindwings fuscous-brown, becoming 

 ochreous on basal half : cilia ochreous with an obscure darker basal line. 



Near A. griseipennis Feld., but smaller and more ochreous-tinged ; 

 the dark reniform is a good distinguishing character. 



Ben Lomond, Macetown. Not uncommon from 2,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. 

 in January and February, 



Hydriomenidae. 



Chloroclystis erratica n. sp. 



^$. 19-23 mm. Head and palpi fuscous mixed with greyish. Palpi, 2^. 

 Antennae in (J fasciculate-ciliate, ciliations 3|-. Thorax grey-fuscous with 

 broad central stripe reddish-brown. Abdomen reddish-brown sprinkled with 

 fuscous and grey, sides fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen 

 obliquely bowed, greyish-fuscous ; a curved grey fascia near base, often 

 obscure ; median band limited anteriorly by curved grey fascia slightly 

 indented below middle and margined more or less with blackish on both 

 sides ; preceding this a parallel, suffused, reddish-brown fascia ; 3 or 4 

 thin waved grey fasciae in posterior portion of median band ; posterior 

 margin of median band from f costa to | dorsum, outwardly oblique to 

 near middle of termen, thence abruptly bent inwards for about half the 

 breadth of band and from vein 2 almost right-angled to dorsum ; a rather 

 broad fascia of reddish-brown parallel to median band, paler anteriorly 

 and sometimes traversed by a thin darker line ; a thin serrate grey sub- 

 terminal line, close to termen on lower half ; a black line round termen : 

 cilia fuscous-grey, obscurely barred with black. Hindwings, termen un- 

 evenly rounded ; fuscous-grey ; numerous lighter and darker fasciae from 

 dorsum and a broader reddish-brown shade before termen ; a strong black 

 terminal line : cilia as in forewings, but paler. 



'In the form of the median band this species comes nearest to C. 

 lichenodes Purd., but is at once differentiated by the structural differences 



