from Australia and New Zealand. 383 
TIN EIDAb. 
Narycia, Steph. 
N. scotinopis, sp. nu. 
gd 11-12 mm. Head fuscous, hairs of crown pale ochreous. 
Palpi, antennz, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark fuscous. Fore- 
wings dark fuscous, lighter-mixed ; a more or less indistinct narrow 
fuscous-whitish fascia before middle, obsolete on costa, forming an 
enlarged distinct whitish spot on dorsum ; a transverse fuscous- 
whitish dorsal spot before termen; two small sometimes nearly 
obsolete fuscous-whitish spots towards termen beneath apex : cilia 
fuscous. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. 
Gisborne, Victoria; in January and February, four 
specimens (G, Lyell). 
Il. Leprpoprera From New ZEALAND. 
CARADRINIDAL, 
Leucania, Ochs. 
L. micrastra, sp. u. 
9 41 mm. Head and thorax reddish-brown, mixed with 
whitish-ochreous. Forewings rather light reddish-brown; veins 
irrorated with grey-whitish and fuscous; lower end of reniform 
indicated by a fuscous dot, preceded and followed by a minute 
whitish dot: cilia light brown-reddish. Hindwings fuscous, 
somewhat lighter towards base : cilia pale brownish, tips whitish. 
Wellington; one specimen (G. V. Hudson). Allied 
to L. phaula and L. alopa. 
PLUSIADAE. 
HYPERAUCHA, gen. n. 
Eyes naked. Antenne in ¢ bipectinated, towards apex simple. 
Palpi very long, recurved, in ¢ reflexed over thorax, second joint 
densely rough-scaled, above with longer projecting scales, terminal 
joint in ¢ much longer than second, densely scaled to apex, obtuse, 
-concave throughout on inner side and containing a long expansible 
