Hamilton. — Present Position of New Zealand Palceontology. ' 63 



Vine, G. E., juu. (Hamilton, A.), 



On the Foraminifera of the Tertiary Beds at Petane, near Napier. 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiii, 393. 



Waters, Arthur William. 



On Tertiary Cyclostomatous Bnjozoa from New Zealand. Q.J. Geol. 



Soc, vol. xliii, 1887, p. 337, pi. xviii. 

 On Tertiary Chilostomatous Bryozoa from New Zealand. Q.J. Geol. 



Soc, 1887, vol. xliii, p. 40, pis. vi-viii. 



Woodward, Henry. 



On a New Fossil Crab from the Tertiary of New Zealand, collected by 

 Dr. Hector (with a note by Dr. Hector). Q.J. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxii, 

 p. 51, pi. vii ; 1875. [Harpactocarcinus tumidus. Rep. N.Z. Geol. 

 Surv., 1873-74, p. 111.] 



Zittel, Dr. Karl A. 



Fossile Mollusken und Echinodermen (N.Z.). Mit 10 Tafeln, vi-xv, 



15-68, Pal. Voy. " Novara." 1864. 

 Fossile Mollusken und Echinodermen aus Neu-seeland ; nebst Beitragen 



von Herrn Bergrath Fr. Ritter von Hauer und Prof. E. Suess. 



10 Plates. See Geol. Mag., vol. i, p. 73 ; 1864. 

 Zittel, Count M. 



General Notes from Proc. Imp. Geol. Instit., Vienna, Jan. 20, 1863. 

 On Hochstetter's Collection. See Q.J. Geol. Soc, 1863, vol. xix, pt. ii, 



p. 20. 



Art. IX. — Notes on New Zealand Lepidoptera. ' 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 



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



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 5th May, 1909.] 



Caradrinid^. 

 Melanchra decorata, Philp. 



Mr. Philpott has sent me a 5 of this species, with the request that I 

 would describe it, as his description was taken from a faded specimen, and 

 is therefore in some respects defective. 



40 mm. Head mixed with whitish, olive-yellowish, pale-greenish, pale- 

 crimson, and dark-fuscous colouring. Palpi ochreous- whitish irrorated with 

 crimson, second joint with a streak of black irroration. Thorax with strong 

 anterior bifid crest, light pinkish-ochreous streaked and on collar barred 

 with blackish and light-greenish. Forewings pale ochreous suffused with 

 light olive-greenish ; veins more or less marked with fine interrupted black 

 lines ; first and second lines double, very indistinct, darker greenish, waved, 

 forming pairs of small blackish spots on costa, second strongly retracted 

 near costa so as to be parallel to costa for some distance ; median line dark 



