Meykick. — Notes on New Zealand Geometrina. 57 



Lar. cosmodora, n. sp. 



Female. — 27 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs whitisk-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged; abdomen 

 with a double dorsal series of dark fuscous dots. Forewings with 

 costa hardly perceptibly arched, hindmargin slightly rounded, 

 oblique; whitisk-ochreous, slightly yellowish-tinged; a curved 

 irregular black line rather near base, followed by a white line ; 

 median band rather darker, tinged with yellowish-fuscous towards 

 edges, margined with dentate black lines and outside these with 

 white, anterior from | of costa to § of inner margin, rather 

 curved, posterior from f of costa to § of inner margin, somewhat 

 prominent beneath costa, and with a more distinct double 

 prominence in middle ; two white dentate-edged spots within 

 median band, first beneath costa, containing small black discal 

 dot, second on inner margin ; a waved white subterminal line ; 

 a fine dark fuscous hindmarginal line interrupted into numerous 

 dots : cilia whitish-ochreous, with dark fuscous bars hardly 

 reaching base. Hindwings whitish-ochreous, with faint darker 

 greyish-tinged lines ; a median band of four more distinct cloudy 

 grey lines, first three straight, fourth well-marked, rather dark 

 fuscous, waved, somewhat prominent in middle, beneath con- 

 fluent with third ; a faint white subterminal line ; cilia pale 

 whitish-ochreous, with a faint greyish line tending to form 

 spots. 



Mount Arthur (4,500 feet), in January; one specimen. It 

 is conceivable that this may be the other sex of the following 

 species, but they are very dissimilar, and I do not at present 

 think it probable. 



Lar. bryopis, n. sp. 



Male. — 29-32 mm. Head, palpi, tborax, abdomen, and legs 

 pale greyish-ochreous, slightly greenish-tinged, irrorated with 

 blackish. Antennas whitish, annulated with black. Forewings 

 with costa gently arcbed, hindmargin somewhat rounded, rather 

 oblique; pale greyish-ochreous, tinged with olive-greenisb, irro- 

 rated with blackish grey, tending to form waved transverse lines 

 on basal area ; median band margined with dentate black lines 

 and outside them with white ; anterior from i of costa to ^ of 

 inner margin, curved, posterior from beyond § of costa to f of 

 inner margin, somewhat indented above middle, with a moderate 

 double prominence in middle ; three blackish-grey subdentate 

 lines within median band, first near and parallel to anterior 

 edge, other two near and parallel to posterior edge, first and 

 second tending to be confluent below middle, space between 

 these more or less suffused with white, enclosing a small black 

 discal spot ; an obscure dentate whitish subterminal line, an- 

 teriorly margined with dark fuscous, preceded and followed by 

 waved fuscous lines ; a hindmarginal series of pahs of dark 



