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Nelson (Hudson). Very common throughout Australia, whence it has 

 probably been recently introduced by artificial means. 



Chloroclystis Hiib. 

 Mr. Hudson has of late years supplied me very liberally and judiciously 

 with specimens of this genus, so that I have now long series of some of the 

 most variable species, and am enabled to comprehend them better. As a 

 result I have perceived that I possess several undescribed species, and. 

 having discriminated these, I compared the whole afresh with Walker's 

 types in the British Museum, and believe all are now satisfactorily deter- 

 mined. I therefore take the opportunity to give a full list of the species, 

 correcting two or three errors that have arisen. Hudson's Chloroclystis 

 rectilineata (N.Z. Moths, 45, pi. 6, 22, his) is not a species of this genus 

 at all, but is a synonym of Microdes qiiadristrigata Walk. C. maculata 

 Huds. (N.Z. Moths, 44, pi. 6, 18) is not known to me, but I doubt i£ 

 it belongs here. 



Sect. A. Antennae in c^ simple. 



1. C. semialbata Walk., 1708 ; indicataria, ib., 1708, 



This is the species hitherto known as hilineolata. I use the name semi- 

 albata, as the type is a c^. and therefore certain ; moreover, there is another 

 species of the genus, indicata Walk., from India. 



2. C. inductata Walk., 1.322 ; subitata, ih., 1362. 



Sect. B. Antennae in ^ with long fasciculate ciliations. 



3. C. sandycias Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, 219. 



A variable and very delicately coloured species, received in plenty. 



4. C. plinthina Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1888, 49. 



5. C. melochlora Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1911, 58. 



6. C. muscosata Walk., 1246 ; cidariaria Guen., Ent. Mo. Mag., 5, 62 : 



aquosata Feld., pi. 1.32, 38. 



7. C. paralodes n. sp. 



c? ?. 23-25 mm. Palpi 2. Antennal ciliations 4. Abdomen with 

 blackish antemedian band. Forewings triangular, termen obliquely bowed ; 

 varying from pale greyish-ochreous to dull light green, always more or 

 less greenish-tinged towards termen, sometimes thinly sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous ; basal area with some curved blackish striae ; median band 

 limited anteriorly by a curved fuscous fascia edged with waved blackish 

 striae, posterior edge more or less marked with black, especially on a 

 crescentic supramedian mark edged posteriorly with white, band itself 

 sometimes suflusedly striated with white ; praesubterminal blotches of 

 blackish irroration or suffusion on costa and above middle, and sometimes 

 indications of one towards tornus, subterminal stria sometimes white : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous or greyish-ochreous, with grey bars narrowed and blackish 

 towards base. Hindwings rather elongate, more so in ^, termen unevenly 

 rounded ; whitish-grey, on dorsal third sprinkled with grey and sometimes 

 with green, with striae of blackish irroration ; a dark-grey discal dot : 

 cilia as in forewings, sometimes rosy-tinged. 



Wellington, Lake Wakatipu (Hudson) ; seven spticimens. 



