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CHARADKININA. 

 Charadrinid^. 

 Orthosia margarita, n. sp. 



Male, female. 33mm.-36nim. Head, palpi, antenuse, and 

 thorax fuscous, considerably darker in ? . Abdomen grey. 

 Legs fuscous mixed with pale-ochreous, tarsi dark -fuscous 

 with apices of joints pale-ochreous. Fore-wings : Costa very 

 slightly arched, apex rather obtuse ; termen hardly waved ; 

 tornus obliquely rounded ; in <3^ fuscous, considerably darker 

 in $ ; a black spot just before -first line below middle ; orbi- 

 cular stigma oval, oblique, light-browu, margined first with 

 ochreous then with black ; claviform stigma black, scarcely 

 traceable in 5 ; reniform stigma large, outlined with black 

 and partially with dull-white ; a costal series of small black 

 spots ; in (? a cloudy dark-fuscous costal shade just beyond 

 second line ; siibterminal line ivith long acute internal black 

 dentations ; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia 

 fuscous, darker in $ . Hind- wings : Pearly -ivhite, semi-trans- 

 parent ; a narrow fuscous terminal hand ; costal and dorsal 

 regions lightly suffused with fuscous ; veins fuscous ; cilia 

 white, with a faint smoky-grey line, suffused at apex with 

 fuscous. 



Wellington, in April ; two specimens. 



NOTODONTINA. 

 Hydriomenid^. 

 Asaphodes siris, n. sp. 



Female. 21mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale brownish- 

 ochreous. Fore-wings : Termen strongly sinuate ; brownish- 

 ochreous mixed with white ; basal patch and median band 

 edged tvith dark-brown ; posterior edge of median hand ivith 

 a strong broad mediant projection ; a small dark -brown dis- 

 cal spot ; subterminal line obscure; cilia brownish -ochreous. 

 Hind-wings: Pale-ochreous with a grey median transverse 

 line ; basal half lightly suffused with greyish ; cilia pale 

 brownish-ochreous. 



Wellington, in March; one specimen. 



