58 Transactiona. 



Art. X. — Notes and Descrijitions of Neiv Zealand Lepidoptera. 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



Commimicated by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. 



PART I. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, Wednesday, 6th July, 1910.] 



These notes are again principally based on material received from Mr. 

 G. Y. Hudson and Mr. A. Philpott, for whose, kind assistance I am very 

 grateful. 



Caradrixidae. 

 Leucania epiastra n. sp. 



^ 9. 40- U ram. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous, thorax with 

 two pairs of fine oblique black lines or series of specks, prothorax with strong 

 triangular crest. Antennae in r? moderately fasciculate-ciliated. Abdomen 

 pale greyish-ochreous with fine black specks, densely hairy towards base. 

 Anterior tarsi with two apical joints black. Forewings light - brownish, 

 wdth scattered black specks, towards base and costa suffused with light 

 greyish-ochreous ; first line represented by two or three black dots, second 

 line by a series on veins ; two white dots longitudinally placed about lower 

 angle of cell, connected by grey sufl'usion ; a terminal series of black dots 

 between veins : cilia light brownish-ochreous. Hindwings fuscous, paler 

 and tinged with pale greyish-ochreous towards base ; cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 tips whitish. 



Makara ; bred in October from larvae feeding in flowering-stems of 

 Ariindo conspicua (R. M. Sunley) ; two specimens received, through Mr. 

 Hudson. 



Hydriomexidae. 

 Chloroclystis melochlora n. sp. 



S ?. 20-27 mm. Head green. Palpi 2^, green. Antennae in ^ with 

 two series of filaments bearing long fascicles. Thorax green, patagia spotted 

 with black. Abdomen green, more or less dotted with black. Forewings 

 triangular, costa somewhat sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, termen bowed, 

 oblique ; green ; striae represented by series of irregular black marks on 

 veins and margins, partially edged with white posteriorly, but on anterior 

 edge of median band anteriorly ; median band broad, considerably narrowed 

 towards dorsum, margins curved, posterior with a sinuation above middle 

 more conspicuously marked with black and edged with w^hite ; a transverse- 

 linear black discal mark ; subterminal line fine, waved, white, anterior edge 

 strongly marked with black above middle : cilia green, barred with black. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded ; ochreous-whitish niore or less tinged with 

 greenish ; sometimes some blackish dots on veins on dorsal half ; a waved 

 subterminal line sometimes indicnted by pale-greenish anterior margin : 

 cilia whitish-greenish. 



Otira River (Hudson) ; in December : three specimens. A handsome 

 species, only comparabh; with muscosata, but with termen of forewings more 



