238 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Olinga feredayi. 



Olinx feredayi, McLachlan, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 10, p. 198, 

 pi. 2, fig. 2 (1870). 



Pale-ochreous, the antennas annulated with fuscous and 

 with a fringe of strong black hairs below the basal joint. 

 Wings smoky, the scales greyish-yellow, neuration darker. 

 Abdomen blackish-fuscous, the appendages yellow. Length 

 of the body, 5 mm. ; expanse of the wings, 20 mm. 



Locality. — Christchurch. 



Genus Pycnocentria, McLachlan (1866). 



Head transversely subquadrate, with an elongated tubercle 

 on each side. Antennae slender, about the length of the 

 wings; basal joint thick, hairy, longer than the head. Maxil- 

 lary palpi in the male 2-jointed, the basal joint very small 

 and concealed, the second long and thick, curved up and 

 furnished with long and strong hairs ; those of the female 

 o-jointed, the basal joint short, the second long and stout, 

 third equal to the second but thinner, the fourth and fifth 

 shorter, equal. Anterior wings with dense pubescence, dilated 

 before the apex ; in the male there is a longitudinal fold far- 

 nished with coarse hairs extending nearly the whole length, 

 and obliterating the discoidal cell ; in the female this fold is 

 absent. Posterior wings shorter and about as broad, obtuse 

 at the apex ; in the male with a longitudinal fold. Legs 

 moderately long and slightly hairy ; spurs 2. 2. 4, those of 

 the anterior and intermediate tibiae moderately long and 

 unequal, both pairs of the posterior tibiae nearly equal and 

 close together. 



Distribution. — New Zealand. 



Pycnocentria funerea. 



Pycnocentria funerea, McLachlan, Trans. Eut. Soc. London, 

 1866, p. 252. 



Antennae blackish-fuscous ; head and thorax dark-chestnut, 

 clothed with blackish hairs. Wings dark-fuscous, the folds in 

 the male conspicuously darker ; a small whitish spot at the anal 

 angles of the anterior pair. Anterior legs greyish-ochreous, 

 the intermediate and posterior femora and tibiae fuscous, the 

 tarsi ochreous. Abdomen blackish-fuscous, the divisions of 

 the segments paler ; in the male the upper margin of the last 

 segment is produced in the middle into a long flattened lobe 

 dilated at the base, then attenuated and obtuse at the apex, 

 from under it project the curved points of the intermediate 

 appendages ; inferior appendages consisting of two branches, 

 the upper obtuse and shorter than the lower ; ventral surface 



