78 l\rr. E. MejTick on the classification of 



A development of the New Zealand genus Notoreas. 

 I am acquainted with five New Zealand species of 

 Ddsi/uris, and two Australian ; to these the one European 

 species which I have seen is extremely closely allied not 

 only in structure but in appearance, and doubtless the 

 genus was once more generally distributed than it is 

 now. 



jjolata, Hb. 

 *ravariii, Ld. 



35. Lythria, Hh. 



Face rough-haired or with loosely appressed scales. Palpi 

 moderate, porrected, with long rough hairs. Antennae in ^ bi- 

 pectinated, apex sometimes simple. Thorax roughly hairy be- 

 neath. Femora sometimes hairy ; posterior tibiae with all spurs 

 present. Fore wings with areole simple. Hind wings with 8 

 anastomosing with cell from near base to beyond middle. 



A development of Notorens. Besides the following, 

 there are two New Zealand species. It is probable that 

 the generic name Botys, Latr., is aj)plicable to this 

 genus ; but, besides that the point is not quite certain 

 (though it is certainly not to be used for any other), that 

 name has been so largely used in a different sense in the 

 Pi/ralidina that I conceive it to be unnecessary to make 

 confusion by adopting it here, where there is already an 

 old Hiibnerian name in universal use. The course is 

 exceptional, but it seems to me that there are exception- 

 ally strong reasons for it. 



plumularia, Frr. 



piuyuraria, L. {= porphyraria, H.-S.). 



sanciidnaria, Dup. 

 *reiiustata, Stgr. 



2. MONOCTENIADiE. 

 Hind wings with vein 5 fully developed (only in Phthorarcha 

 coincident), rising froin near or below middle of transverse vein, 

 8 free or anastomosing shortly near base, or rarely anastoinosing 

 from near base to beyond middle, approximated to upper margin 

 of cell to middle or beyond. 



The few European genera unworthily represent this 

 family, which is numerously developed in Australia, and 

 to some extent in the Indo-Malayan region. Elsewhere, 



