274 Mr. E. Meyrick on 



marked irregularly with blackisli streaks. Antennae in ^ shortly 

 bipectinated to §. Abdomen light grey, sometimes ochreous-tinged. 

 Forewings moderately dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, 

 termen crenulate, obliquely rounded ; grey, puitially whitish- 

 sprinkled, variably and irregularly tinged with purple-brownish, 

 median band and terminal area darker ; a short black median 

 longitudinal streak from base ; a short similar parallel streak from 

 dorsum near base, sometimes obsolete ; first and second lines slender, 

 blackish, waved, nearly obsolete on upper half, fairly distinct and 

 rather nearly approximated on lower half ; spots outlined with 

 black, more or less rosy-brownish, especially reniform, orbicular and 

 reniform sometimes whitish-edged, orbicular semi-oval, incomplete 

 above, claviform subtriangular ; subterminal line white, sometimes 

 interrupted or partially obsolete, with one prominent dentation 

 below middle (on vein 3), near dorsum more conspicuous and 

 preceded by a triangular dark fuscous spot, elsewhere edged with 

 smaller dark fuscous spots : cilia fuscous, mixed with dark fuscous, 

 and indistinctly barred with whitish. Hindwings light fuscous, 

 darker terminally ; cilia whitish, with cloudy dark fuscous line. 



Four specimens. Nearest to M. miUans, with which it 

 agrees in the rather peculiar character of the siugle 

 prominent dentation of subterminal line, but darker and 

 duller-coloured, Avithout the black supratornal streak of 

 that species, and differing also by the blackish posterior 

 margin of reniform. 



3. Melanchra comijosita, Guen. 

 Five specimens. 



Hydriomenid^. 



4. Xanthorlioe rosearia, Dbld. 



One specimen {$) ; somewhat peculiar, median band of 

 forewings strongly marked with dark fuscous, its posterior 

 edge more approximately parallel to termen than in any 

 of my New Zealand specimens; in the absence of further 

 material I am disposed to regard it as a local form only. 



5. Xanthorhoc homalocyma, n. sp. 



(J 24-28 m.ni., $ 22-26 m.m. Head and thorax pale uchreous, 

 more or less sprinkled or tinged with fuscous. Antennal pectinations 

 of (^ long {a 6, b 8). Forewings triangular, apex obtuse, termen 



