50 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Wellington, in July ; one specimen received from Mr. A. 



Purdie. 



Pas. muscosata, Walk. 



(Eupithecia muscosata, Walk., 1246; E. cidariaria, Gn., "Ent. Mo. Mag.," 

 v., 62; Cidiaria aquosata, Feld., pi. cxxxi., 33.) 



Male, female. — 20-23 mm. Head green. Palpi 3, green. 

 Antennas in male grey, ciliations 3, in female light ochreous 

 ringed with black. Thorax green, with several small black 

 spots. Abdomen green. Legs black, banded with green and 

 whitish-ochreous, posterior pair whitish-ochreous, with base 

 of tarsal joints fuscous. Forewings with hindmargin bowed, 

 oblique, crenulate ; green ; numerous curved, waved, darker 

 lines, irregularly marked with black ; anterior edge of median 

 band from § of costa to f of inner margin, curved ; posterior 

 edge from before f of costa to § of inner margin, sinuate in- 

 wards beneath costa and above and below middle ; a pale 

 subterminal line, preceded by darker suffused spots on costa, 

 above middle, and above anal angle ; a black hindmarginal 

 line : cilia green, tips whitish, with narrow black bars on basal 

 half. Hindwings with hindmargin unevenly rounded, crenate ; 

 whitish, in disc slightly reddish-tinged, towards inner margin 

 sprinkled with greenish-grey, with grey waved lines ; a dark 

 grey discal dot before middle ; edges of median band black 

 towards inner margin ; hindmargin greenish, especially below 

 middle ; a black hindmarginal line ; cilia greenish-whitish. 



Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch ; in 

 September, and from December to February, tolerably common. 



Pas. bilineolata, Walk. 



(Eupithecia bilineolata, Walk., 1246 ; Scotosia humerata, ib., 1362; Eupi- 

 thecia semialbata, ib., 1708 ; Helastia chary bdis, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii., 

 503 ; H. calida, ib., 504.) 



Male, female. — 20-23 mm. Head and thorax ochreous- 

 whitish, mixed with green and light fuscous, sometimes spotted 

 with black. Palpi 2£, green, somewhat irrorated with whitish 

 and black. Antennas in male light ochreous, ciliations 3, in 

 female white ringed with black. Abdomen ochreous -whitish, 

 mixed with fuscous and irrorated with black, with a more or less 

 defined black median ring. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints 

 ochreous-whitish, posterior tibiae suffusedly irrorated with 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings with hindmargin bowed, oblique, 

 sinuate above anal angle ; whitish-fuscous, towards costa and 

 hindmargin suffused with green ; numerous curved waved darker 

 fuscous lines, partly marked with black ; anterior edge of median 

 baud from § of costa to § of inner margin, curved, sometimes 

 followed by a blackish suffusion ; posterior edge from before £ 

 of costa to f of inner margin, sinuate beneath costa, rather pro- 

 jecting in middle, thence paraUel to hindmargin ; in female the 



