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On a f»naJI CUiUpriian of IIeteroceroi^s Lepidoptf.ua, from iW/r 

 ZealmuJ; hy AiniUM; (x. Bi'TLKR, F.L.S., F.Z.S., i»C-(>. 



Tlie series of Motlis recorded in the present Paper, has been 

 sent to me for identification, by Professor Hutton, of the Otago 

 .Museum, Dunedin; it is a singularly interesting little consign- 

 ment, not only from tlie comparatively large nimibei- of novelties 

 wliich it contains, l)ut also from the assistance which it lias 

 rendered in correcting the synonymy of the known species, and 

 the light which it has shed upon the sexual differences of the 

 species of the genus Pseudocoremin. 



ARCTIID^. 



1. Phaos Huttonii, n. sp. (ISFo. 1). 



Nearly allied to P. interjixa of Tasmania ; primaries pale 

 ochraceous, with the borders and veins rather l)roadly black, a 

 submarginal transverse black line or stripe, or these wings might 

 perhaps better be described as black, with an abbreviated basal 

 dash, a cuneiform discoidal dash, an interno-median longitudinal 

 streak, five siibconfluent longitudinal discal dashes, and a sub- 

 marginal series of small conical spots pale ochraceous ; a basal 

 subcostal carmine streak ; secondaries bright ochreous, greyish 

 on interno-median area ; an oblique black spot on the discocel- 

 lulars ; outer border, to beyond the first median branch, broadly 

 l)lack, uniting with a large subanal marginal black spot, and 

 intersected by an interrupted macular ochreous line close to the 

 margin ; fringe ochreous ; body black, with sordid whitish 

 fringes tu tlie tegula- ; abdomen with ochraceous borders ; wings 

 l)elow ochreous with black discocellular spots ; outer borders 

 black, intersected by a series of ochreous dots ; costal borders 

 dark orange, the primaries with an ill-defined svibcostal carmine 

 streak ; body black, pectus fringed with pale sericeous hair ; 

 tibiaj and tarsi of legs ochreous ; anterior femora carmine in 

 front ; venter bordered and banded Avith ochreous. Expanse 

 of Avings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Qneenstown (two examples). 



