500 Mr. BtiTLER on a amalJ collection of 



46. Declana iiigrosparsa, n, sp. (No. 2). 



Wings snow-wliite, the primaries slightly greyisli upon the 

 borders, a black-mottled subquadrate grey patch on the basal 

 half from the median vein to the inner margin ; an indication of 

 a belt just beyond the middle, reppesented by a diffused bisiuu- 

 ated gi'ey streak, and a series of ferruginous discal spots parallel 

 to it; a black marginal line; fringe traversed by a grey line; 

 secondaries crossel from the origin of subcostal branches to the 

 abdominal margin by two subcoufluent conical grey spots, a 

 darker lunule on ujiper discocellular ; a grey marginal line ; 

 body greyish, mottled with l)lack and white, tegulaj testaceous in 

 the middle ; abdomen with a longitudinal dorsal series of small 

 clay-coloured projecting spots ; tiliia^ and tarsi white, banded 

 with black; anteniia; white with clay-coloured internal surface; 

 under surface snow-white : wings with slender brown marginal 

 line ; the primaries with transverse conical grey spots as in the 

 secondaries; a bisinuated grey discal line; body greyish. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Otago. 



Nearest to D. fioccosu, hut with all the markings consideral>ly 

 less pronounced and with Avhite secondaries. 



47. Declana scabra (No. 4). 

 Argua ycahni, Walker, Lep. Het. xxviii, p. 44S, n. 1 (18(!3). 

 Wairarapa. 



4<S. Declana nu'eata, u. sp. (No. 8). 



Snow Avhite, the primaries covered all over with embossed 

 mottling; costal and outer borders faintly speckled with grey, 

 an irregularly undulated band of Avhich, limited internally by a 

 blackish line, runs across the disc ; external border limited in- 

 ternally by a very irregular interrupted line; traces of a blackish 

 oblique hue across the basal thii'd of the wing; costal margin 

 dotted with black ; secondaries immaculate ; body with slightly 

 greyish tegula?; antenna; clay-coloured internally; sides of palpi 

 and a tuft on each side of the pectus behind the eyes, blackish; 

 under surface of wings and l:)ody snow-white, immaculate. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 incli 3^ lines. 



Otago. 



Readily separalilo from all the other species by the much more 

 closely approximated lines which cross the primaries and the 

 immaculate white secondaries. 



