Meyrick. — Lepidoptera from the Kermadec Islands. 69 



2 specimens ; 9 others taken. There are three examples of the same 

 species in the British Museum from the Solomon Islands ; it will probably 

 be found mdely distributed in the Pacific islands. The species is nearly 

 allied to the common Indian and Australian H. lentalis, Gn., but larger, 

 and certainly distinct by the structural characters of palpi and legs. 



Hypenodes costaestrigalis, Stph. {exsularis, Meyr.). 



2 specimens. Europe, Australia, New Zealand. A closely allied form 

 occurs in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Hypena gonospilalis, Walk. 



13 specimens. Java, Pacific islands. 



Thermesia rubricans, Boisd. 



2 specimens. Africa, southern Asia, Pacific islands. 



* Plusia chalcites, Esp. 



4 specimens. North and South America, southern Europe, Africa, 

 southern Asia, Australia, Pacific islands. Larva on various plants. 



* Achaea melicerte, Drury. 



1 specimen. Africa, Asia, Australia, Pacific islands. New Zealand. 



Hydriomenid.^. 

 Phrissogonus laticostatus, Walk. 



1 ^ , I 2 • Australia. 



Phrissogonus denotatus, Walk. 



3 specimens. Australia, New Zealand. Larva on Brachijglottis repanda. 



* Chloroclystis indicataria, Walk. 



1 specimen. New Zealand. 



Hydriomena officiosa, n. sp. 



5 . 25 mm. Head and thorax brownish mixed with pale ochreous, 

 face with moderate tuft, thorax with two dark-grey bars. Palpi moderate, 

 dark fuscous, base of second and third joints whitish. Forewings triangular, 

 termen almost straight, slightly waved, rather oblique ; brownish, irrorated 

 with blackish and whitish, with almost straight, somewhat waved, dark- 

 fuscous strife ; edge of basal patch slightly whitish-margined, angulated 

 near costa ; edges of median band somewhat black-marked, whitish-mar- 

 gined, posterior above middle with a slight distinctly black-marked sinuation, 

 followed by a small patch of undefined pale-ochreous suffusion ; discal dot 

 linear, blackish ; subterminal line waved, slender, whitish. Hindwings 

 Avith termen rounded, waved ; grey, towards dorsum with dark-fuscous and 

 whitish striae. 



1 specimen ; 5 others taken. Nearest to the New Zealand H. deltoidata, 

 but easily distinguished by the smaller size and grey hindwings. 



* Euchoeca rubropunctaria, Dbld. 



1 specimen, in very poor condition. Australia, New Zealand. Larva 

 on Haloragis alata. 



