LepidoideTa from, the Chatham Islands. 275 



oblique, gently rounded, slightly waved ; pale ochreous, sometimevS 

 fuscous-tinged, sometimes sprinkled with whitish or dark fuscous ; 

 numerous waved brownish-ochreous or fuscous stria3, usually faint 

 in (^ but more distinct in 9 ; '^^^o^ of basal area angulated near 

 costa, in ^ sometimes blackish-marked in middle and on dorsum ; 

 third and fourth fasci;e (limiting median band) usually darker- 

 suffused, in (^ sometimes blackish-marked on external edge towards 

 middle and on dorsum, anterior edge curved, posterior slightly 

 prominent in middle and beneath costa ; on each side of median 

 band are somewliat paler fascia?, in which veins are often marked 

 with white, and more or less conspicuously dotted with black ; a 

 transverse black discal dot ; termen sometimes darker-suffused, 

 especially in ^ , limited above by an oblique dark apical streak : 

 cilia pale ochreous, with two cloudy fuscous lines. Hindwings light 

 grey, sometimes ochreous- tinged ; posterior edge of median band 

 sometimes indicated by a faint darker angulated shade ; sometimes 

 one or two darker subterminal stri* ; cilia as in forewings. 



Twenty-seven specimens. Somewliat intermediate be- 

 tween X. roscaria and X. subdicctata ; markings much as 

 in siihducfata, but forewings without the characteristic 

 yellow-greenish mixture, and posterior edge of median 

 band much less prominent in middle. It also approaches 

 the larger Tasmanian JT. ccntroneura, which however is 

 reddish-tinged, and has distinct band of median striae on 

 hindwings, besides otlier differences. 



6. X. lucidata, Walk. 



Three specimens, somewhat large and pale, but not 

 otherwise different. 



Selidosemidje. 



7. Selidosem.a cmibrodes, n. sp. 



^ 9- 32-36 m.m. Head and thorax varying from fuscous to 

 brownish-ochreous. Anteunal pectinations in ^ very long (10), 

 extending to near apex. Abdomen pale ochreous-yellowish, sprinkled 

 with fuscous, in ^ rather elongate. Legs rather dark fuscous, ringed 

 with whitish-ochreous, posterior tibise in $ little dilated. Fore- 

 wings rather elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen somewhat oblique, rounded ; light ochreous, more or 

 less largely suffused with brown, and strigulated with dark fuscous ; 

 first and second lines dark fuscous, usually indistinct, first strongly 

 curved, second somewhat irregulai', hardly curved on upper 4S 



