270 Transactions. 



28. Declana Walk. 



Declana Walk., Cat. xv, 1649 (1858) ; type, floccosa Walk. Ipana ib. 

 1661 ; type, leptomera Walk. Argua ib. xxviii, 448 (1863) ; 

 type, floccosa Walk. Detunda ib. xxxii, 618 (1845) ; type, atro- 

 nivea Walk. 



Face rough. Antennae in <$ usually bipectinated, sometimes simple. 

 Palpi rather long, second joint ascending, with long hairs beneath, terminal 

 joint long, slender, clavate, porrected. Thorax densely hairy above and 

 beneath, with more or less developed median crest. Femora densely hairy. 

 Forewings with raised scales ; 10 sometimes out of 9, usually anastomosing 

 with 9, 11 seldom out of 10, sometimes anastomosing with 10. 



Endemic. The genus is very well characterized, and differs from all 

 others known to me by the peculiar palpi ; it therefore becomes unneces- 

 sary and undesirable to subdivide it. 



Section A. — Antennae in $ simple. 



204. D. leptomera Walk., Cat. xv, 1662 ; Huds., N.Z. Moths, 94, pi. x, 



29-31 : crassitibia Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. cix, 10. 

 Wellington. Larva on Leptospermum. 



205. D. griseata Huds., N.Z. Moths, 98, pi. x, 32. 



Wellington, Lake Wakatipu. 



206. D. niveata Butl., Cist. Ent. 2, 500 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xvi, 104 ; 



Huds., N.Z. Moths, 98. 

 Dunedin. 



Section B. — Antennae in £ bipectinated. 



207. D. floccosa Walk., Cat. xv, 1649 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xvi, 102 ; 



Huds., N.Z. Moths, 96, pi. x, 39-47 : scabra Walk., Cat. xxviii, 448 : 

 jeredayi Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, 398, pi. xliii, 5 : nigro- 

 sparsa Butl., Cist. Ent. 2, 500. 



Whangarei, Taranaki, Ohakune, Wellington, Christchurch, Dun- 

 edin. Larva on Leptospermum ericoides and Aristotelia racemosa. 



208. D. sinuosa Philp., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xlvii, 197. 



Orepuki, Queenstown, Hunter Mountains. 



209. D. hermione Huds., N.Z. Moths, 98, pi. x, 36. 



Wellington, Orepuki. 



210. D. junctilinea Walk., Cat. xxxii, 643 ; Huds., N.Z. Moths, 98, pi. x, 



37, 38 : verrucosa Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. cxxxi, 22. 

 Wellington, Blenheim, Lake Wakatipu. 



211. D. glacialis Huds., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xxxv, 245, pi. xxx, 2. 



Mount Arthur, Arthur's Pass, Mount Cook, Lake Wakatipu. 



212. D. atronivea Walk., Cat. xxxii, 619 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xvi, 



101 ; Huds., N.Z, Moths, 95, pi. x, 33, 34 : manixfera Fer., Trans. 

 'N.Z. Inst, xii, 268, pi. ix, 1. 



Napier, Otaki, Ohakune, Wellington. Larva on Panax arboreum. 



213. D. egregia Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. cxxxi, 24 ; Fer., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xii, 



268, pi. ix, 2 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst, xvi, 101 ; Huds. N.Z. Moths, 

 96, pi. x, 35. 



Nelson, Christchurch, Akaroa, Otira Gorge, Orepuki, Stewart 

 Island. Larva on Panax. 



