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fuscous ; first and second lines indicated by dark-fuscous interior 

 margins ; spots indicated by partial dark-fuscous margins, 

 orbicular roundish, reniform trapezoidal, claviform suboval ; 

 median shade more or less marked, formed by dark - fuscous 

 suffusion ; subterminal line indicated by well-marked thick 

 dark-fuscous anterior margin ; a terminal series of dark-fuscous 

 crescentic marks : cilia whitish, with distinct bars of blackish 

 irroration. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, with suffused fuscous 

 terminal fascia ; cilia whitish, base more or less infuscated. 



Mount Arthur (4,700 ft.) and Lake Wakatipu, in January; 

 two specimens. Easily known by the whitish ground-colour and 

 strong dark prsesubterminal shade. 



Hydriomenid.e. 

 Chlorodystis halianthes, n. sp. 



3 . 26-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous mixed 

 with whitish and dark fuscous, shoulders partially suffused 

 with red ; palpi 2J. AntennJB biciliated with long fascicles. 

 Foiewings triangular, costa posteriorly arched, termen little 

 bowed, oblicpie, subsinuate above tornus ; pale fuscous mixed 

 with white and dark fuscous, sometimes partially suffused with 

 pale red, appearing purplish-tinged ; normal fascise formed of 

 blackish irroration ; median band broad, anterior edge hardiv 

 curved, below middle sometimes largely suffused with white 

 and partially with pale red, posterior edge running from before 

 I of costa to tornus, very obtusely angulated below middle, 

 followed by well-marked pale double second line ; fifth and 

 sixth fasciae little marked, below middle obsolete through con- 

 traction of area : cilia fuscous mixed with whitish, distinctlv 

 barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings with termen tolerably 

 evenly rounded, hardly prominent on vein 3 ; pale-grey, towards 

 dorsum sprinkled with black and white. 



Lake Wakatipu (Hudson) ; two specimens. (3f the New 

 Zealand species of this genus that have fasciculate antennae in 

 3 , muscosata, antarctica, and hilineolata are green-tinged species, 

 dryas a clear brown species, plinthina and aristias are red-tinged 

 species : halianthes is really red-tinged, but appears purplish, 

 and is allied to the two latter, but larger than either, darker, 

 and easily known by the grey hindwings (in the other two whitish) 

 and differently formed median band of forewings. Probably it 

 varies considerably, like several of the others. 



Asaphodes stephanitis, n. sp. 



S . 26-27 mm. Head and thorax yellow-ochreous, with a 

 few blackish scales. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, 

 termen bowed, oblique, slightly waved ; clear light yellow- 



