60 Transactio}).^. 



basal half fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; colour and markings 

 as in forewings, but basal area irrorated with pale yellowish, subbasal and 

 first lines obsolete, second somewhat bent in middle : cilia as in forewings. 

 Under-surface of all wings light ochreous-yellow ; first and second lines 

 indistinctly indicated by whitish suffusion ; forewings with some incomplete 

 cloudy blackish lines ; hindwings with a blackish discal mark. 



Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range, north of Wellington, 4,000 ft. 

 (Hudson) ; three specimens. Referred to by me previously (Trans. Ent. 

 8oc. Lond., 1905, p. 221) as a geographical form of mechamtis ; but I am now 

 satisfied that it is specifically distinct. It is larger, more obscure, without 

 the strong golden-yellow suffusion, and the hindwings are wholly yellow 

 beneath except the black discal mark, whereas in mechmitis they are marked 

 with strong black lines. 



MONOCTENIADA E. 



Dichromodes cynica n. sp. 



o. 17 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen blackish-gre}^ slightly 

 whitish-sprinkled, palpi 34. Antennal pectinations 6. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa faintly sinuate, apex rounded - obtuse, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; dark grey sprinkled with black and grey-whitish, veins partially 

 suffused with yellow-ochreous irroration ; lines obscurely indicated by 

 whitish irroration, irregular, first somewhat sinuate, indented below middle, 

 edged posteriorly with black irroration becoming broad towards costa, second 

 slightly prominent near costa and dorsum, and Avith a moderate bidentate 

 prominence in middle, edged anteriorly with black irroration also becoming 

 broad towards costa, subterminal hardly traceable ; a small blackish trans- 

 verse discal mark before second line : cilia dark grey, slightly sprinkled 

 with black and whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; dark fuscous ; 

 a fine indistinct grey-whitish curved post-median line, sinuate inwards in 

 middle : cilia dark fuscous. 



Lyttelton (Hudson), in November ; one specimen. I have compared 

 it with the type of nujer Butl., but the lines are differently formed. The 

 New Zealand species of Lnchroniodes appear to be scarce ; they are probably 

 very inconspicuous, and escape notice. 



Chamjjidae. 

 Crambus schedias n. sp. 



S- 28 mm. Head white, sides of crown and centre of face pale 

 brownish-ochreous. Palpi 4. light brownish-ochreous, white above and to- 

 wards base beneath. Antennal ciliations \. Thorax brownish-ochreous, with 

 broad white central stripe. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, somewhat dilated posteriorly, apex obtuse, termen at 

 first straight, little oblique, then rounded off ; bronzy-ochreous, deeper in 

 disc ; a fine white line beneath costa on anterior half ; a rather narrow 

 straight white median streak from base to termen ; a white line along dorsum 

 from base to \, where it becomes broader and subdorsal, becoming obsolete 

 about ;! ; four cloudy white lines towards costa posteriorly between veins : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings ochreous-grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 



Wellington (Hudson), in March ; one specimen. Nearest to callirrhous, 

 but lighter-coloured, and without the more numerous, prolonged, and well- 

 defined white iiiterneural streaks of that species. 



