510 Transactions. 



Art. LVIII. — Some New Species of Lepidoptera. 

 By G. Howes, F.E.S. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 12th September, 1903.] 



Plate XLIV. 

 Physetica hudsoni. 



$ , 42 mm. One specimen. Antennae, legs, and face bluish- 

 grey. Palpi bluish-grey, ochreous beneath. Crown ochreous- 

 grey. Patagiae grey margined with delicate blue. Abdomen 

 ochreous, tinged with dark-grey dorsally. Anal tuft ochreous. 

 Forewings light greyish-blue, all lines and markings as if pencilled 

 on in darker colouring. Costa slightly arched, apex subacute, 

 narrow suffusion along costa from base to apex. A very jagged 

 transverse line close to base. A jagged transverse line at about 

 J and another at §, approaching each other in centre of wing, 

 then bending sharply away and approaching again about centre 

 of dorsum. A jagged transverse subterminal line, twice sharply 

 dentate, near tornus. A clouded dark suffusion between this 

 and line at § along costa. Portions of veins lightly outlined 

 with darker scales. An undefined yellowish suffusion from costa 

 to dorsum at centre of wing. Reniform obscure. Orbicular 

 faintly shown, being lighter in colour than wing-centre. Cilia 

 of forewings bluish-grey, slightly barred with grey. Hindwings 

 bright-ochre, deepening to dark-fuscous towards termen, edging 

 of dull-ochre along costa. Cilia long, ochreous-grey, with a faint 

 fuscous basal line appearing very light by contrast with the 

 darker cilia of the forewings. 



This exceedingly beautiful moth was taken by Mr. Robert 

 Gibb at Tuturau, near Mataura, attracted by light. 



I am naming this moth after Mr. G. V. Hudson, as a slight 

 recognition of the great good his entomological work has been 

 to the southern workers. 



Melanchra beata, n. sp. 



? , 38 mm. One specimen. Legs, antennae, paipi, and face 

 all reddish-brown. Thorax greyish-brown. Abdomen dull-grey, 

 reddish below. Anal segment reddish. Forewings : Costa slightly 

 sinuate at about \. Apex subacute. Termen sinuate near 

 tornus and oblique. General ground-colour delicate pinkish- 

 brown. Three pairs slight dark marks on costa. A series of 

 small obscure black dots along termen. Orbicular faintly out- 

 lined in white, broadly oval, oblique. Clariform triangular, 

 posteriorly outlined in white. Reniform outlined in white. A 



