Meyrick. — Notes and Descriptions of Netv Zealand Lepidoptera. 5 



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Art. II. — Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera. . s>/M 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. # V 



Communicated by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, Qth May, 1908.] 



1 AM again indebted for the material of these notes to the energetic assistance 

 of my valued correspondents, Mr. G. V. Hudson, of Wellington, and Mr. 

 A. Philpott, of Invercargill. 



Caradrinid^. 

 Leucania phaula, Meyr. 



L. neurce, Philp. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1904, 330), is a synonym of this 

 species. Mr. Philpott kindly sent me two examples of his species, himself 

 suggesting that it might be identical with my phaula, and this is undoubtedly 

 the case. 



Plusiad^. 

 Plusia transfixa, Walk. 



Mr. Hudson sent me several examples of this species from the Thames 

 district. It is common and widely distributed in eastern Austraha, where 

 it is undoubtedly native ; it has not been hitherto recorded from New 

 Zealand, and may perhaps have only recently succeeded in introducing 

 itself. The species of this genus are strong and bold fliers, and can cross 

 wide seas. 



Hydriomenid^. 

 Eucymatoge anguligera, Butl. 



S t . 32-37 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, partially sprinkled 

 with brown-reddish ; thorax with an irregular transverse anterior reddish- 

 fuscous or dark-fuscous hne. Abdomen whitish-ochreous sprinkled with 

 brown-reddish, with a bar of blackish suffusion on apex of second segment, 

 and sometimes a double dorsal series of blackish dots. Forewings triangular, 

 costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, obUque, 

 strongly waved ; pale brownish-ochreous, with numerous waved ferruginous- 

 brown striae, tending to be somewhat marked with black on veins and costa ; 

 median band somewhat paler through obsolescence of strioe, limited by 

 groups of striae more distinctly marked with black, anterior curved, posterior 

 rounded-prominent beneath costa and in middle, latter prominence suffused 

 with blackish ; an oblique subapical patch of darker brown suffusion, its 

 upper edge defined and running from above median prominence to apex : 

 cilia pale ochreous mixed with brown-reddish, basal half sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded, irregularly waved-dentate ; 

 colour and stria? as in forewings, but prominences of median band nearly 

 obsolete ; a blackish discal dot ; ciUa as in forewings. 



