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more tinged with grey-brown, the whole terminal areagrey- 

 b ro wn. 



Hub. Peru, Aqualani (Ockenden), 1 c? type, Limbane 

 (Ockenden), 1 cJ . E.vp. 36 mm. 



1374 a. Miselia meyricci, n. n. 



Meterana pidula, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 386, pi. 4-2. f. 1 ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 19, pi. 4. f. 37 (nee White). 



The species from the S. Island with the white spot on 

 reniform of fore wing, the hind wing pink with fuscous 

 terminal band. 



Hab. N. Zealand, S. Island, Otago {Enys, Hamilton), 1 ^ , 

 1 ? , Lake Coleridge. E.vp. 40-42 mm. 



M. pictula, White, type in B.M. agreeing with the figure 

 ■=rhodopleura, Meyr., is the species from the N. Island 

 without the white spot on reniform of fore wing, the hind 

 wing suffused with fuscous except the inner margin. 



1510 «. Chabuata chionosema^ sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax purple-red, the tip of prothoracic 

 crest and a streak on dorsum of thorax white mixed with 

 brown ; palpi with some ochreous and brown mixed ; 

 antennae brown ringed with ochreous towards base ; pectus 

 with some grey; tarsi ringed with ochreous; abdomen 

 brown with some ochreous at base, the sides and ventral 

 surface purplish pink, the basal crest with grey mixed, the 

 anal tuft red, ochreous at tip. Fore wing red-brown, the 

 interspaces of basal half fiery red and ochreous, the 

 postmedial area fiery red, the inner margin beyond 

 middle and terminal area purplish ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double brown stride from costa ; antemedial line 

 double, brown, waved ; claviform red, faintly defined by 

 brown at extremity ; orbicular and reniform fiery red mixed 

 with yellow and defined by brown, the former round, the 

 latter defined on outer side and below by pure white points 

 and striae ; traces of an oblique sinuous line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown with 

 yellow spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line brown with some yellow scales 

 on its outer side towards costa, waved, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle; cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. 

 Hmd wing ochreous, the veins and terminal half suffused 

 with brown, the termen tinged with purple to submediau 



