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rounded at the periphery ; irregularly banded in the direction of 

 the growth lines with dark reddish-brown and pale brownish- 

 yellow, the first two-and-a-half whorls dark, the epidermis being 

 rubbed off. Upper surface finely irregularly granulated by 

 deeply undulating impressed lines, lower surface smooth and 

 polished. Interior calcareous, bluish white. Greatest diameter 

 about 2 inches, and least diameter, 1\ inch. 



The lower surface is broken off, so as to leave the shape of the 

 umbilicus and the aperture uncertain. 



The single specimen was found on the saddle between the 

 Mokihinui and Lyell Kivers, and was lent me by Dr. Gaze, of 

 Westport, for description. 



The slowly increasing whorls and apparently narrow um- 

 bilicus ally this species to P. hochstetteri , from which, however, it 

 is sufficiently distinguished by its colours, and by the finer granu- 

 lation of the upper surface. 



Art. XI. — Supplement to a Monograph of Sew Zealand Noctuina. 

 By E. Meybick, B.A., F.E.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, tith October, 1887.] 



Since writing my paper on the Noctuina*, I have been 

 enabled to again visit the British Museum, and compare the 

 material acquired with the collection there. After a careful 

 examination I have made several corrections in nomenclature, 

 which are here set forth, together with the description of a small 

 new species hitherto overlooked. 



NocTimm 



Leucania, Tr. 



Leuc. griseipennis, Feld. 



(Mcmestra griseipennis, Feld., pi. cix., 22 ; Client virescens, Bail., Cist. Ent. 

 ii., 48i); Spaelotis inconstant, ib. 545; Leucania moderate/,, Meyr., 

 " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," 1886 (nee Walk.).) 



This is the species described by me as />. moderate, Walk., 

 which name I find to be correctly applicable to the following 

 species ; Felder's name is therefore to be adopted for this. The 

 other synonymy is correct as published, but in tbis and other 

 cases I have repeated it in full, to avoid possible confusion. 



* Sec " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xix., p. i. 



