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median band and two following lines often more or less wholly 

 suffused with white ; sometimes a small curved blackish sub- 

 terminal spot above anal angle ; a blackish interrupted hind- 

 marginal line : cilia light fuscous, with obscure dark fuscous 

 quadrate spots on basal half. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 unevenly rounded, crenulate, concave above anal angle ; grey- 

 whitish, with grey waved curved lines becoming obselete towards 

 costa ; a dark grey discal dot before middle ; edges of median 

 band marked with blackish towards inner margin ; inner and 

 hindmargins somewhat mixed with greenish ; cilia grey-whitish. 

 Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin ; in March and 

 June, tolerably common. 



§ B. Antenna* of male with short even ciliations (^-f). 

 Pas. nereis, n. sp, 



Male, female. — 15-21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdo- 

 men grey sprinkled with blackish-grey and whitish, sides of 

 thorax and base of abdomen (in fresh specimens) tinged with 

 blue-greenish ; palpi 2. Antennae whitish annulated with black, 

 ciliations in male ^. Legs blackish, middle and posterior pair 

 irrorated with whitish, apex of all joints whitish. Forewings 

 with hindmargin bowed, oblique, slightly sinuate above anal 

 angle ; light grey, suffused with light blue-greenish (in fresh 

 specimens) ; numerous curved waved darker grey or blackish- 

 grey lines, alternating with a partial irregular white irroration ; 

 anterior edge of median band from ^ of costa to ^ of inner 

 margin, curved ; posterior edge from § of costa to § of inner 

 margin, sinuate inwards beneath costa, and above and below 

 middle ; median band towards margins, and a hindmarginal 

 band interrupted beneath costa, obscurely suffused with darker 

 grey, especially near costa ; a grey discal spot, sometimes obso- 

 lete ; an interrupted blackish hindmarginal line : cilia whitish, 

 barred with grey, and with an obscure grey line, bars darker on 

 basal half. Hindwings with hindmargin unevenly rounded ; 

 grey, with obscure darker waved lines, more distinct towards 

 inner margin, and somewhat irrorated with white in intervals ; 

 an obscure dark grey discal spot, often merged in one of the 

 lines ; cilia as hi forewings, but more obscure. 



Mount Arthur (4,000 feet) and Mount Hutt (2,500 feet) ; in 

 January, rather common, but apparently exclusively a mountain 

 species. 



Pas. sphracfitis, n. sp. 



Male. — 15-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi 2£, whitish ochreous, sometimes greenish-tinged, and 

 irrorated with black. Antennae light fuscous, ciliations f. 

 Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, with blackish ante-median and 

 ante-apical bands. Legs blackish, apex of joints whitish- 



