BY E. MEYRICK. 811 



11. EUCHOECA, Hb. 



Face quite smooth. Antennae in ^ ciliated. Palpi short, very 

 slender, porrected, loosely scaled. Posterior tibiae with all spurs 

 present. Forewings with areola simple. Hindwings with veins 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



This genus (to which I have restored an old name of Hiibner) 

 contains only a few European and North American species, and 

 the one here given. It is a development of Asthena, which it 

 closely resembles. 



19. JEuch. ruhropunctaria, Dbld. 



( Ptychopoda rubrojjunctaria, Dbld., DiefF. N.Z. ii, 287; Acidalia 

 pulchraria, Walk. 780 (nee Dbld.), Butl. Cat. IST.Z.L. pi. ill, 18 ; 

 Asthena risata, Gn. IX, 438 ; A. muUata, id. Ent. Mo. Mag. V, 

 42 ; A. ruhropunctaria, Meyr., Trans. N.Z.I. 1883, 60.) 



(J2- 19-22 mm. Head and thorax pale rosy-ochreous, face dull 

 reddish-fuscous, frontal fillet whitish. Forewings triangular, 

 hindmargin bowed, waved ; whitish-ochreous, more or less rosy- 

 tinged, with about twelve slightly curved waved rosy or rosy- 

 fuscous transverse lines, leaving a clear space between sixth and 

 seventh on costal half; first, sixth, and eighth dotted with dark 

 fuscous on veins ; usually a larger black dot on sixth above 

 middle ; lower half of sixth to eighth sometimes blackish, 

 with interspaces grey, or in disc beneath middle rarely grey- 

 whitish ; usually a small red spot on ninth in middle ; a hind- 

 marginal row of blackish dots : cilia ochreous-whitish, with two 

 rosy lines. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, waved, some- 

 what projecting or slightly angulated in middle ; colour, lines, 

 and dots as in forewings. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; Newcastle and Sydney, New South 

 Wales ; Fernshaw, Victoria ; Mount Wellington and Georges 

 Bay, Tasmania ; from August to March, common. Occurs also 

 throughout New Zealand. The larva feeds on Haloragis. The 

 species is variable, but cannot be mistaken. 



