OF NEW ZEALAND. 65 



slightly elongated, thickened and spinose ; middle tibise terminated by- 

 two small spines. 



C. SIGMA. Walker, I.e., p. 1084 (TetanoceraJ , (1849) . 



Body ferruginous, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles. 

 Crown and hind part of the head beset with black bristles. Crown 

 bright tawny, with the exception of a narrow ferruginous stripe be- 

 tween the ocelli and the base of the antennae ; face large, flat, silky- 

 white, with a yellow tinge, having four little black hairs on each side ; 

 eyes black, fore-part red, rather flat, composed of much larger facets 

 than those elsewhere ; proboscis black, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi 

 black, beset with black bristles. Antennse ferruginous, nearly as long 

 as the face ; second joint thickly beset with black bristles ; third 

 conical, a little broader but hardly longer than the second, dark fer- 

 ruginous except at the base ; style black, tawny at the base, feathered 

 with short hairs, much more than twice the length of the third joint. 

 Crown concave in the middle, convex and ferruginous on each side. 

 Fore-part of the thorax with four indistinct darker stripes; breast 

 paler. Abdomen linear, a little longer and narrower than the thorax. 

 Legs ferruginous, rather thick, clothed with short black hairs, beset 

 ■wdth a few black bristles ; claws black. Wings grey, tawny for half 

 the breadth beneath the fore-border; adorned with nine brown spots, 

 of which five are along the fore-border, one on the middle cross-vein, 

 one at each end of the lower cross-vein, and one on the fourth vein 

 at a short distance from its tip ; the second and third of those on the 

 fore-border are close together, and each is rather smaller than the 

 first, but larger than the fourth ; the fifth is larger than any of the 

 preceding ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; lower 

 cross-vein curved into the form of an 8. Poisers pale tawny. 



Length, 34 lines. 



New Zealand (Earl). 



aenus-LIMNIA. 

 Rob. Desvoidy. 



Front projecting. Antennse as long as the head; second joint 

 broad, compressed, equal in length to the third. Posterior femora not 

 elongated nor thickened ; middle tibite terminated by two long spines. 



L. TRANSMAEiNA. ScMuer, I.e., p. 234 (1868). 



Male. Rust-yellow. Thorax with whitish stripes ; two longi- 

 tudinal shining lines on the middle, two darker grooves on the sides, 

 and the lateral margin to the shoulders white-striped; sides of the 



