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identical with the European species; they are however in rather 

 faded condition : perhaps, if more perfect specimens be obtained, 

 some slight distinction may be detected. 



117. Plusla eriosoma. Doubleday, n. s. 



Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Exp. Alar., 1 unc. 10 lin. 



Anterior wings purplish-ash, glossed with copper in various 

 places, especially towards the outer margin. Across the middle 

 of the wing is a broad brown bar, less distinct on the costa than 

 on the inner margin, bounded externally by a very indistinct, 

 waved, fuscous striga, and internally by a bright silvery line ex- 

 tending obliquely from the inner margin to the median nervure, 

 upon which, a little beyond this line, is a V-shaped silvery mark, 

 followed by an oval silvery spot. Near the apex, in certain lights, 

 there is an appearance of an oblique dusky striga approximating to, 

 but not connected with, a similar striga ascending from the anal 

 angle. Posterior wings fuscous. Abdomen, with the extremity 

 and the sides beyond the middle clothed with long fulvescent hairs. 



118. Aspilates? subochraria. Doubleday, n. s. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Exp. Alar., 1 unc. 1-2 lin. 



Anterior wings ochraceous ; the costa, a very faint striga near 

 the base, a broad transverse fascia beyond the middle and parallel 

 with the outer margin, brown ; the space between this and the 

 margin tinged with light brown, darker on the margin itself. 

 Disc with a small rounded black dot. Posterior wings pale ochra- 

 ceous, immaculate. Below, the anterior wings of the male have 

 the disc fuscous, the margins ochraceous, the posterior one darker 

 than above, and irrorated with brownish scales, almost condensed 

 into transverse bands. The female is ochraceous, with a common 

 transverse striga and a distinct spot. Male with the pectinations 

 of the antennae very short. Antennae of the female simple. 



1 19. Cidaria rosearia. Doubleday, n. s. 



Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Exp. Alar., 1 unc. 



Anterior wings pale brown, tinged with rosy purple, fuscescent 

 at the base ; this portion bounded by a waved fuscous striga. Be- 

 fore the middle is a waved transverse fuscous band, and a similar 

 but broader one beyond the middle ; both less defined near the mar- 

 gins of the wing, appearing composed of three coalescing strigae. 



