MeyFvIck. — On New Species of Lepidoptera. 97 



Akt. XI. — New Sjiccics of Lepidoptera. 

 By E. Meywck, B.A., F.Z.S. 



'Bead before the Philosophical Institute cf Canterbury . 6th November, 



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The following eight new species of Kew Zealaiid Lepidoptera 

 were all taken in the neighbom-hood of Welliug-ton by Mr. 

 G. V. Hudson, and I am indebted to his kindness for the 

 specimens which I have described ; he himself possesses other 

 •iiuiilar specimens. 



LAEENTIAD^. 



Pasipiiila dry as, n. sp. 



g . 25mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen light red- 

 (Ubh-brown irrorated with blackish ; palpi 2^. Antennas light 

 fuscous, ciliated with long fascicles (4). Legs dark fuscous, 

 apex of joints wliitish. Fore wings with hindmargin bowed, 

 oblique, crenulate, slightly sinuate above anal angle ; rather 

 light reddish-brown ; numerous curved waved cloudy dark 

 fuscous transverse lines, somewhat marked with black on 

 veins ; anterior edge of median band from f of costa to f of 

 inner margin, shortly angulated near costa ; posterior edge 

 froui before f of costa to f of inner margin, forming a broadly- 

 triangular projection in middle ; a faint pale waved subter- 

 uiinal line, forming a whitish dot above anal angle : cilia pale 

 brownish, irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings with 

 liindmargin uneyenly rounded, crenulate, sinuate above 

 middle and above anal angle ; light reddish-brown, irrorated 

 with dark luscous, forming obscure waved transverse lines ; a 

 blackish hindmarginal line ; cilia as in forewings. 



One specimen. 



TOETEICIDJS. 



Adoxophyes camelina, n. sp. 



J . 20mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, reddish- 

 tinged. Palpi '^^, grey, becoming ochreous-whitish towards 

 base. Antennae whitish-ochreous, dotted with blackish above. 

 (Abdomen broken.) Legs whitish, anterior pair partially 

 infuscated. Forewings oblong, costa very strongly arched on 

 anterior half, thence rather deeply sinuate posteriorly, apex 

 obtuse, hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, ha,rdly oblique, 

 rounded beneath ; ferruginous, suffused with purplish-fuscous 

 towards costa ; a whitish-ochreous streak along costa from 

 l)efore middle to f , attenuated to a point at extremities (ap- 

 pearing to exaggerate costal sinuation) : cilia ferruginous. 

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