488 Mr. Butler on a small coUecticm of 



The Tasmanian species is larger, witli more elongated prima- 

 ries, the latter best described as creamy-white clouded at the 

 end of the cell with ochreous ; the veins, borders and three 

 transverse lines black ; a basi-costal scarlet streak ; the second- 

 aries are dark ochreous, with a broad external black border 

 interrupted by two marginal ochreous dots ; the interno-median 

 a'-ea blackish ; the body with Avhitish margins to collar and 

 tegula3, the abdomen scarlet at the sides, indications of the same 

 colour appearing also on the margins of the segments ; a latei'al 

 series of black and whitish spots ; there are, therefore, plenty of 

 well-defined characters whereby to distinguish the New Zealand 

 form. 



HEPIALID^. 



2. Porina fnliginea^ n. sp. (No. 79). 



Allied to P. cervinata ; smoky brown ; primaries with 

 slightly greyish outer border, limited by an interrupted blackish 

 line ; a marginal series of small whitish-edged black spots 

 between the veins ; an interrupted greyish-edged blackish 

 discal line, also two or three transverse black spots nearer to 

 the end of the cell, and crossing the subcostal interspaces ; 

 discoidal cell and base varied with unequal black-edged Avhite 

 spots ; secondaries with the basal area broadly clothed Avith 

 paler hair ; al:»domen with pale hair at the base ; under surface 

 immaculate. Ex})anse of Aviugs 1 inch i") lines. 



Otago. 



LEUCANIID^. 



3. Lencania atristriga (No. 5). 



Xijlina atristriga, Walker, Lep. Ilct. Supp. iii, p. 750 (186.")). 

 Bityla atristriga, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. LS77, p. 367, n. 37. 

 Otago. 



This species is evidently allied to L. propria and L.dishicata; 

 I was therefore in error when I referred it to Biti/l<t. 



XYLOPHASIID.E. 



4. A't/hipJiasia stipata. 



Xijlina stipata, Walker, Lep. Ilet. Suppl. iii, p. 753, (1805). 

 (Jtau'o. 



