which, although by no means generally common, appears to 

 be fully established in the Islands; and a few examples of 

 the almost equally widely-ranging Hipjwiion celerio L. have 

 been met with in recent years. The great assemblage of 

 moths included under the obsolete but in some respects con- 

 venient name of the Bonibycina are all but unrepresented in 

 the fauna, several important families, as the Limacodidae, the 

 Lasiocampidae, and the Saturnidae, being entirely absent; 

 the sole representative of the Hypsidae is Deilemera annulata 

 Boisd., whose sharply contrasted black and white markings 

 and diurnal flight render it one of the most conspicuous and 

 familiar of the insects of New Zealand. The very few Arctiidae 

 include the widely distributed Utetheisa pulchella L. which is 

 a fairly freqiient visitor and perhaps established in the North 

 Island, and three species of Metacrias, an endemic genus 

 probably most nearly related to the South European genus 

 Ocnogyna. The males of these are handsome and very active 

 little " tiger-moths," which fly in the sunshine at rather high 

 elevations in the South Island, the females being practically 

 apterous, and covered with a thick coat of yellowish hair- 

 scales. 



We have yet another instance of unequal representation in 

 the case of the Noctuid moths. In his " Revision of the New 

 Zealand Caradrinina,''* Mr. Meyrick enumerates 97 species, 

 and the researches of the resident Lepidopterists, not for- 

 getting those of our Fellow Dr. G. B. Longstaff,t have added 

 about a dozen more in recent years. Seven of the genera, 

 and a very large percentage of the species, are entirely 

 restricted to the New Zealand region, and the great majority 

 of these are comprised in a single sub-family, the Melanchrinae, 

 the genus Melanchra alone having no fewer than 37 species. 

 The multitude of diversified forms until recently included 

 under the comprehensive title of the Quadrifinae are here 

 represented only by a very few stragglers, chiefly from 

 Australia and the Pacific Islands; and within the limits of 

 the region we also find Heliothis armigera Hubn., Leucania 

 (Aletia) unipuncta Haw., L. loreyi Dup. (in the Kermadec 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., XLIV, pp. 86-107. 



t "Butterfly-hunting in Many Lands," pp. 449, 451, 474. 



