Ileteroceroiis Lc})i(loptcni j'riiiii Xeiv ZealainJ. 4'.)1 



end of tlie cell, its outer edge, together with a portiou of the 

 outer undulated line, iudicating the reniform spot, its inner edge 

 united at the extremity to an obhque black-edged whitish dash 

 'which replaces the orbicular spot; an indistinct series of black 

 marginal dots ; secondaries chocolate-brown becoming pale 

 lirowu towards the base ; fringe pale brown intersected by a 

 darker line; head, collar, and centre of thorax rich chocolate- 

 brown edged with fulvous scales; first joint of palpi tipped with 

 fulvous ; tegula? dark brown with a sericeous slaty -grey lustre ; 

 abdomen chocolate-brown with pale basal tufts; under surface 

 paJe sericeous red-brown with darker margins and fringe ; 

 |)rimaries Avith whitish interno-basal area ; secondaries with a 

 lunule at the end of the cell and a bisinuated discal series of 

 spots black ; body below darker than the wings, chocolate- 

 brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 

 Otago, 



More nearly allied to G. tai'tarea than to any othcir described 

 species ; the figure of G. tartarea is badly coloured, the black 

 spots being Avholly omitted. 



IIADENID.E. 



11. Hadena plena (No. 9), 



Er ana plena, Walker, Lep. Het, Suppl. iii, p, 7-14 (18G5). 

 Otago, in July. 



This species differs entirely from Erana in the structure of 

 the primaries, 



12. Hadena dehiUs (No. 11). 



ITadenn dehilis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. oS."), n. 26, 

 pi. xlii, fig. 6. 

 Otago. 



13. Hadena viutans (No. 12). 



Hadena mntans, Walker, Lep. Het. xi, p. 0()2 (1857). 

 Xylina s/nircata, Walker, Lep. Het. xi, p. 631 (1857). 

 Mamefttra anr/itfita, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. iv, pi. cix, 

 fig. 19. 



^^'airarapa. 



It is possil)le, though scarcely probable, that //. vinfans, 

 insiijnis, dehUis, lignifusca, and vexata may be all modifications 

 of one extremely variable species. 



