Meyrick. — 0)1 Neio Species of Lepidoptera. 101 



subquadrate pale brownish-oclireous spot on inner margin be- 

 fore middle, and a smaller one before anal angle : cilia dark 

 fuscous. Hind\Yings and cilia dark fuscous. 



One specimen. It comes nearest to M. cratcea, but differs 

 from that species by the absence of costal spots and of pale 

 irroration. 



BOARMIAD.E. 



BOARMIA, Tr. 



I have been led to modify my conclusions with regard t;j 

 some of the species in this genus by the examination of a 

 number of specimens sent. by Mr. A. Purdie, of Dunedin, and 

 of those in the British Museum collection ; the group is cer- 

 tainly puzzling from the great variability of most of the species, 

 but I think the following alterations may be made : — 



Boarmia rudiata, Wo.lk. [Cidarla rudisaia, Walk., 1420 ; 

 Boarmia astrapla, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1889, 218.) 



Walker's name, which I had overlooked on account of the 

 bad condition of the specimen, should, I think, be substituted 

 for mine : but I have altered its extraordinary orthography. 



Boarmia suavis, Butl. 



The ppecies described by me as B. Iwpinata, Feld., appears 

 not to be the true Iwpinata ; it must therefore bear the above 

 name, and usitata, Butl., is correctly referred as a synonym 

 of it. It is a very variable insect, but is usually easily recog- 

 nisable by the characteristic form of the second line. When 

 dark longitudinal streaks are present, they lie on the submedian 

 fold, and "ot along the inner margin itself. 



Boarmia lupin ata, Feld. 



This appears to be a good species, distinct from any other. 

 I do not possess a specimen, but have seen two or three from 

 Dunedin. It is somewhat larger than the last, with the fore- 

 wings of rather a peculiar light brownish-grey colour (perhaps 

 variable), indistinctly marked somewhat as in B. rudiata, 

 with a dark streak along the inner margin, and the subterminai 

 line appearing (through its conjunction with a pale apical 

 streak) to terminate in apex. 



