106 Tiri7isactio?is. 



Art. VII. — Notes and Descriptions of Lepidoptera. 



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



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



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 3rd October, IQOfi.] 



The following notes on new and interesting forms are based 

 mainly on material received through the kindness of Messrs. 

 G. V. Hudson and A. Philpott, principally collected in the 

 southern parts of the South Island. It is evident that the 

 fauna is still far from being exhausted. I think that good 

 results might be especially obtained by (1) searching for, and 

 particularly breeding, the more minute forms, which require 

 close observation, and (2) collecting at high altitudes earlier, 

 and perhaps also later, in the year. 



Caradrinid.e. 

 Leucania temenaula, n. sp. 



3- . 34-36 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous mixed 

 with brownish. Antennae serrate, fasciculated. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa almost straight or subsinuate, termen 

 bowed, waved, oblique ; greyish-ochreous, mixed with whitish- 

 grey and brownish ; subbasal, first, second, and subterminal 

 lines obscurely pale or whitish, inconspicuous, more or less 

 pai-tially dark-edged interiorly, sometimes with some black 

 irroration ; orbicular and reniform more or less distinctly 

 whitish-edged and laterally dark-margined, orbicular round, 

 reniform trapezoidal ; claviform small, whitish, dark- edged, 

 touching first line, sometimes obsolete ; median line obsolete : 

 three pale dots on costa posteriorly ; a terminal series of dark- 

 fuscous crescentic marks. Hindwings fuscous, with dark-fuscous 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish, base fuscous-tinged. 



Rakaia (Fereday), Dunedin (Hudson) : three specimens. A 

 distinct though inconspicuous species, allied to moderata, bu'. 

 lighter and less uniform in colouring, spots more distinct, termen 

 rather more oblique, hindwings much less dark posteriorly. 



Leucania pachyscia, n. sp. 



? . 32-40 mm. Head and thorax grey- whitish mixed with 

 dark fuscous, thorax sometimes with blackish anterior angulated 

 bar. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa almost straight, ter- 

 men bowed, waved, oblique ; whitish, sprinkled with brownish 

 and black scales ; subbasal line partially margined with dark 



