METACEIAS. — TERACOTONA. 469 



Hab. N. Zealand, 8. Canterbury, Richardson Range. Exp. 32 

 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



*2005. Metacrias erichrysa. 



Me/acrias erichrysa, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i, p. 749 (1890) ; 

 Iludsou, New Zealand Mollis & Butterflies, p. 4, pi. 4. f . 5 ; Kirbv. 

 Cat. Ilet. p. 2()3. 



(5 • Head, thorax, and abdomen black, mixed with grey hair ; 

 antennae with some white scales above ; legs orange with some black 

 markings ; abdomen with lateral series of orange spots, becoming 

 ventral bands on terminal segments ; wings orange-yellow. Fore 

 wing with broad black fascia; on the veins ; a fascia on costal area 

 from before middle to apo.x ; a large spot on discocellulars : the 

 fasciae on veins from lower angle of cell narrow to the curved post- 

 medial series of conjoined spots ; the fascia above inner margin very 

 broad. Hind wing with large discoidal lunule ; a subterminal band 

 formed by a wedge-shaped patch from costa to vein 4, where it is 

 conjoined to another wedge-shaped patch extending to submediau 

 fold, and a triangular spot on vein 1; a dentate terminal line from 

 apex to vein 4, conjoined to the subterminal band at apex. 



2 ' Wings aborted, minute ; the legs short, stout and well- 

 developed ; uniform whitish ochreous. 



Ifah. N. Zealand, Mount Arthur, 4000 feet, typef in Coll. 

 Meyriek. Exp. 38 millim. 



Larva. Black ; the hairs clothing the segmental incisions brownish 

 ochreous. Food-plant, Senecio hellidioides, January. 



Cocoon rather slight. 



Genus TERACOTONA. 



lype. 



Macronyx, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. G (1874) ; nee Swains. Aves, 1837. submaciila. 



Tcracoiona, Bull. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 382 rhodophcBa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antennaj 

 of male ciliated ; fore tibice short, with large curved claw on inner side and short 

 olaw on outer; liiiid tibiae with the medial s})urs absent; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomo.sing with 8 to 

 form a long areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 5 from well above angle ; G, 7 from u])per angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Abdomen scarlet above, whitish beneath. 



a. Fore wing not clouded with fuscous ciiprepia. 



h. Fore wing clouded with fuscous rlwdopluea. 



Ii. Abdomen orange above and below, tinged with scarlet 

 at base. 



a. Fore wing without subterminal black spots suhnacula. 



h. Fore wing with subterminal black spots above vein 5 



and towards inner margin mhterminata. 



