198 Transactions. 



A. obsecrata Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 46. 101. 



Ben Lomond, 2,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. ; Eemarkables ; Kinloch. November 

 to February. Not uncommon. Flying swiftly by day over rough herbage. 



A. sminthistts (Hamps.), Cat. 5, 280, pi. 86. 17. 



Waipori. November to January. I take sollennis Meyr. (Trans. N.Z- 

 Inst. 46, 101) to be a faded or discoloured specimen of this species. 



Physetica coerulea (Guen.), Ent. Mo. Mag. 5, 38 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. 

 hist. 19, 5. 

 Mataura ; Orepuki ; Wakatipu ; Alexandra. October to April. 



Persectania disjungens (Walk.), Cat. 15, 1681 ; Mevr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. 

 19, 15. 

 Mataura ; Wakatipu ; Dunedin ; Wedderburn. Ascends to 5,500 ft. 

 November to January. 



P. steropastis (Meyr.), Trans. N.Z. hist. 19, 22. 



Generally distributed. November to March. Larva on Phormium tenax 

 and Arvndo conspicua, to which plants it does much injury. It is also some- 

 times found on Cordyline anstralis. When full-grown the larva is 37-40 mm. 

 in length. It is dull-brownish-yellow, faintly tinged with pink, and slightly 

 fusiform in shape. The anal third is darker owing to the suffused fuscous 

 bordering of the lines. The dorsal and subdorsal lines are thin and pale 

 yellow. The head is flesh-coloured. During the day the larvae hide away 

 in the old sheaths at the base of the plants, coming out after dark and 

 feeding along the margin of the leaves, in which they cut deep V-shaped 

 incisions. 



P. ewingii (Westw.), Proc. Ent. Soc. 2, 55 ; composite Mevr., Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst. 19, 22. 

 Generally distributed. November to May. 



P. arotis (Meyr.), Trans. N.Z. Inst. 19, 11. 



Invercargill ; Dunedin. September to November. Hampson calls this 

 species aulacias Meyr., but in uniting the two forms Hudson selected the 

 name arotis, which must stand in accordance with article 28 of the Inter- 

 national Rules of Zoological Nomenclature. * « 



P. atristriga (Walk.), Cat. 33, 756 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 19, 8. 

 Generally distributed. January to April. 



P. propria (Walk.), Cat. 9, 111 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 19, 9. 

 Generally distributed. February to April. 



Erana graminosa Walk., Cat. 11, 605 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 19, 28. 

 Dunedin. September to April. 



Melanchra meyricki (Hamps.), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 8, 8, 421 ; pictula 

 Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 19, 18. 

 Wakatipu. November to April. The figure in Taylor's Te Ika> a Maui 

 evidently refers to rhodoplenra of Meyrick. There is no trace of the white 

 reniform of meyricki, neither are the hindwings even tinged with scarlet. 



M. exquisita Philp., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 35, 246, pi. 32, 2. 



Invercargill ; Queenstown ; Alexandra ; Ida Valley. October to February. 



M. plena (Walk.), Cat. 33, 744 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 19, 17. 



Generally distributed. August to April, and occasionally during the 

 winter months also. 



