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sinuate just above tornus ; light pinkish-fuscous, striated with fuscous, 

 towards costa and termen suffused with pale dull green, veins pale-greenish 

 marked with dark fuscous ; median band hardly defined ; a narrow dark- 

 fuscous spot preceding subterminal stria above tornus : cilia fuscous, base 

 spotted with dark fuscous. Hindwings moderate, termen rather unevenly 

 rounded, sinuate above tornus ; light grey, towards dorsum tinged with 

 pale-greenish and striated with dark-fuscous irro ration ; a dark-grey 

 roundish discal dot : cilia whitish-grey. 



Mastei*ton, in March, one specimen taken by myself in 1883 ; I have 

 never seen another. 



13. C. dryas Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1891, 97. 



14. C. aristias Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, 385. 

 16. C. halianthes Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1907, 107. 



16. C. charybdis Butl., Cist. Ent., 2, 503 ; calida, ib., 504. 



Sect. C. Antennae in c? shortly aiid evenly ciliated. 



17. C. malachita n. sp. 



(^$. 19-25 mm. Palpi l|-lf. Antenna! ciliations 1. Abdomen with 

 blackish antemedian band. Forewings triangular, teimen bowed, rather 

 oblique ; bright moss-green, sometimes partially tinged with yellowish, in 

 one specimen partly brownish on basal area ; some indistinct darker-green 

 transverse striae, partially marked with blackish, especially towards costa ; 

 posterior edge of median band marked above middle with a black iunule 

 edged with white posteriorly, and irregularly marked with black towards 

 dorsum ; a well-defined blackish blotch on costa towards apex ; well- 

 defined blackish blotches on termen above middle and on tornus, cut by a 

 fine waved greenish subterminal stria, tornal blotch more or less suffused 

 with dark brown-reddish : cilia brownish, base greenish, suffusedly barred 

 with blackish. Hindwings with termen somewhat unevenly rounded ; pale- 

 greyish, towards dorsum tinged with brown-reddish and striated with dark 

 grey : cilia pale-greyish, more or less rosy-tinged, and indistinctly spotted 

 with dark-grey suffusion. 



Lake Harris and Lake W3,katipu (Hudson) ; four specimens. 



18. C. lichenodes Purd., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1887, 70. 



19. C. sphragitis Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1-888, 51. 



20. C. nereis Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1888, 51. 



Xanthorhoe cymozeucta n. sp. 



(J $. 23-25 mm.' Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. face with conical 

 tuft. Palpi 2|. Antennal pectinations in S a 5, b 6. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous sprinkled with fuscous, with double dorsal row of blackish spots. 

 Forewings triangular, costa sinuate, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely 

 rounded, waved, subconcave on upper half ; greyish-ochreous, irregularly 

 sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous, towards costa and termen whitish- 

 ochreous ; first two fasciae each formed of two or three striae of blackish 

 irroration ; third and fourth fasciae of two and three blackish striae respec- 

 tively, more or less suffused with fuscous, third preceded and fourth followed 



