oUtt Mr. BuTLKi; on a -^i/iall collection of 



iuterruptcd at the terminations of the veins l)y blackish spots; 

 secondaries pale smoky-grey, the veins black spotted with 

 whitish ; extreme outer margin black ; fringe as in the primaries ; 

 body brownish-grey, head yellowish ; antennas smoky-grey, 

 strongly pectinated ; under surface sericeous grey ; markings 

 of upper surface ill-defined ; discocellulars black ; primaries 

 with pale reddish cupreous costal area; secondaries with a series 

 of short black dashes beyond the cell; fringe paler than the rest 

 of the Avings, spotted with dark grey. Expanse of wings 10^ 

 lines. 



Otaffo. 



59. Ilelastid calida, n. sp. (No. 43). 



Primaries above jmle reddish-broAvn; base chocolate-brown, 

 crossed and margined by blackish lines ; a subangulated undu- 

 lated l)lack-edged chocolate-brown band across the basal two- 

 fiftlis; indications of a whitish-edged black discal line represented 

 above the third median branch by a strongly defined limule and 

 a blackish costal spot ; an undulated chocolate-brown submarginal 

 band edged externally with a white line Avhich is zigzag from 

 the second median branch to the costal margin; a black marginal 

 line slightly interrujjted at the extremity of the veins ; fringe 

 Avhitish, intersected by a grey line and heavily spotted with 

 blackish; secondaries grey, veins banded Avith black, margin and 

 fringe as in primaries ; body reddish-broAvn, abdomen Avith pale 

 dorsal tufts; head ochreous; undersiu-face sericeous grey; disco- 

 cellulars black ; primaries Avith a faint reddish tint on costal 

 area ; the bands of the up])er surface indicated upon costal half 

 by darker grey with Avhitish interspaces ; secondaries paler than 

 primaries, almost Avhite ; an angulated series of Idack dots 

 beyond the cell, also three dusky costal dots betAveen the latter 

 and the base. Expanse of wings 11^ lines. 



Otago. 



In this species the }iriniaries are more elongated in appearance 

 than in the tAvo preceding foi-ms; in this respect it approaches 

 H, inexpiata. 



(10. Tc(to8oma trunsitaiia (No. G8). 



Cidaria transitaria, Walker, Lep. Het. xxv, p. 141'.), n. *J(l 

 (1S62). 



Wairarapa. 



