Ileteroceroiis Le|)id(i[)tci'a from New Zealand. 493 



Adena xanthiali^, Walker, Lep. Het. xxvii, p. 198, n. 1 

 (1863). 

 Otago. 



Differs in colour from Walker's types, the primaries being 

 ocliraceous instead of brick-red ; I have no doubt, however, that 

 it is a mere variety. 



19. Scopula Jlewidalis (Nos. 21 Ot 22). 



Jfarga/'itia flavldcdis, Doubleday, Dieff., New Zeal. 1, [). 287. 

 u. 125. 



^, ?. Otago. 



The female example is slightly larger and darker than usual. 



20. Sccqmla notatei. n. sp. (No. 20). 



Primaries reddish clay-colour, slightly sericeous ; discoidal 

 area dusky; a black-edged white rhomboidal spot at the end of 

 the cell; a grey discal line, arched beyond the cell, zigzag from 

 first median branch to inner margin ; fringe grey ; secondaries 

 pale creamy ochreous, speckled at apex and on interuo-basal 

 area with grey scales; two black spots ])laced ol)liquely at the 

 end of the cell; a marginal series of black dots; thorax red- 

 brown ; abdomen greyish, white at base ; primaries below 

 blackish as far as the discal line ; costa and external area sordid 

 sandy-brown, tinted with a feeble rosy gloss ; Avhite spot as 

 above; fringe grey; a marginal row of black dots; secondaries 

 silveiy-white, slightly yellowish; black discocellular spots and 

 marginal dots as above; a discal irregular series of grey spots; 

 body below whitish, legs reddish. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



Otago. 



21. Scopdiia i:(inij'er((, n. sp. (No. 92). 



Primaries clay-coloured, speckled all over with snoAV-white 

 scales, and with a few black scales towards the inner margin ; 

 a blackish-brown band across the base ; a zigzag (almost 

 M -shaped) fascia, dark brown edged with white, from near the 

 base to beyond the end of the discoidal cell, its superior angles 

 extending to the costal margin ; a broad external brown border 

 edged internally by a pale angular line ; a marginal series of 

 blackish dots ; secondaries sericeous bras.sy-brown, very pale 

 with diil'iisod dusky apical border ; frir.ge silvery-white ; body 

 silvcry-wliitlsli, the thorax longitudinally streaked with brown; 



