5U2 Mr, BuTLKi: on a, siiudl culhclian of 



pl■o^'e, upon careful examination, to be congeneric, and referable 

 to a distinct iuid Intlierto iincharacterized genus ; at present I 

 cannot spare time to look into the matter critically, but I am 

 satislied that there is some confusion in the above-mentioned 



52. Larentia ? rvfeseens, n. sp. (Nos. 52, 56 & 101). 



Intermediate between the precetling species and L. megd.ynluta: 

 j)rimaries pale lakey-broAvn, crossed by numerous undulated 

 brownish lines, Avith indications of a broad central belt, cunei- 

 form blackish subapical patch and black discocellular dot, all as 

 in L. megaspilata ; secondaries pale sericeous testaceous, crossed 

 in the middle by four parallel sinuous tmdulated grey lines in 

 pairs; three similarly undulated grey lines upon the external 

 area and the commencement of a fourth betwtien these and the 

 central ones; external border pale lakey-brown, with a marginal 

 series of black dots in })airs; fringe traversed by a grey line; a 

 black discocellular dot ; head and thorax pale lakey-brown 

 speckled with blackish, abdomen jsale testaceous banded with 

 blackish ; primaries below grey, costa pale ochraceous, a whitey- 

 broAvn discal band immediately following the limiting lines of 

 the central band, otherwise nearly as <\bove, but the central lines 

 rather darker ; secondaries altogether darker than above, the 

 ground-colour sandy, the central lines blackish,, the lines on 

 external border ill-defined; body below pale lakey-broAvn. Ex- 

 panse of Avings 1 inch 1 line. 



Otago (four examples). 



53. Larentia? mega-ynlata (No. oH). 



L(ir(niia nu'<ja.sin'l(it((, Walker, Lej). llet. xxiv, ]). llil.S (l.S(;2). 

 L'idaria a^sata, Felder, Keise der Nov. Lep. v, pi. cxxxi, lig. 1. 

 Otago. 



In my fcjrmer })apcr I followed Dr. Felder, in referring tliis 

 species to Ciduria, because of its apparent affinity to the C. congre- 

 gata group; it agrees with this latter in neuration and coloration, 

 but differs in its longer palpi, so that until Larentia is broken 

 up iiito several genera it will have to be retained, with its allies, 

 in that uenus. 



