Meykick. — Notes on New Zealand Geoinetrina. 53 



marked with black ; anterior edge of median band from § of 

 costa to | of inner margin, curved ; posterior edge from before 

 f of costa to f of inner margin, partially blackish, indented 

 beneath costa, sinuate inwards above and below middle ; in 

 female sometimes a white patch below middle of disc ; an 

 obscure fuscous-grey patch on hindmargin above middle, 

 margined above and below by paler bars ; a blackish hind- 

 margiual line : cilia light ochreous or greyish-ochreous, with 

 obscure dark fuscous spots on basal half. Hindwings with 

 hindmargin unevenly rounded, crenulate ; whitish-grey, towards 

 inner margin ochreous-tinged, and with obscure grey waved 

 lines ; a dark-grey discal dot before middle ; edges of median 

 band marked with blackish towards inner margin ; cilia grey- 

 whitish. 



Napier, Wellington, and Nelson, from December to March ; 

 tolerably common. 



Pas. inductata, Walk. 

 (Coremia inductata, Walk., 1322 ; Scoto.sia subitata, ib., 1362.) 



This is a distinct species ; but I have only seen the British 

 Museum specimens, and am unable to say to which section it 

 belongs, or to give a proper description. The hindmargin of 

 the forewings is more bent, and the hindwings are narrower 

 than in any other species; ground-colour light reddish, with 

 the margins of the median band formed by distinct black 

 lines.* 



Phkixogonus, Butl. 



Structure quite as in Pasiphila, except that in male the 

 forewings have a tuft of scales or dilation on costa (variously 

 formed in the different species). 



There are four Australian species, besides the one from New 

 Zealand ; the latter approaches most nearly to Pasiphila, of 

 which the genus is a development. The generic name was 

 originally written by Butler as Phrissogonus, which is ortho- 

 graphically so horrific in formation that I have been obliged to 

 reform it correctly. 



Phrix. denotatus, Walk. 



(Scotosia denotata, Walk., 1361; Phibalapteryx parvulata, ib., 1721.) 



Male, female. — 16-18 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs dark fuscous, sometimes slightly mixed with 

 pale ochreous ; palpi 2 ; antennae of male stout, quite naked ; 

 apex of tarsal joints ochreous-whitish. Forewings with costa 

 moderately arched, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; in male 

 with a small glandular dilation on costa beyond middle, beneath 



* Larentia infusata, Walk., 1199, and Eupithecia inexpiata, ib., 1708, are 

 specimens of this genus, but are, in my opinion, too much worn for identifi- 

 cation. 



