42 NEW ZEALAND MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



The expansion of the wings is f inch. The fore-wings are bright green with numerous 

 wavy darker lines. There is a jagged transverse black line near the base, two at about one- 

 fourth, enclosing a rather paler space ; beyond this there are several rather irregular, fine black 

 marks, and an obscure white patch below the apex ; the cilia are dull green. The hind-wings 

 are grey slightly tinged with reddish ; the dorsum and termen are shaded with green, and there 

 is a number of curved black lines on the dorsum ; the cilia are dull greenish-grey. The termen 

 of the fore-wings is slightly bowed, and all the wings are finely scalloped and sharply outlined 

 in black. 



A very distinct variety frequently occurs in which the entire ground colour is 

 orange-yellow. This variety can be artificially produced by exposing a typical specimen 

 to the fumes of bruised laurel leaves. Intermediate forms may also be found, but are 

 much scarcer than either the typical form or the variety. 



The larva (according to Mr. Purdie *) is about \ inch long ; colour brownish, surface 

 very rugged ; body tapering somewhat towards the head. Two pairs of small dorsal 

 tubercles about the middle, the posterior pair being larger ; oblique lateral dark 

 markings faintly seen on dark ground colour ; below lighter. Food-plants : Aristotelia, 

 Leptospermum ericoides, Bubus (?), and Mulilenbecltia (?). Found in December and 

 January. 



The perfect insect appears from September till May, and is often very common. 

 It rests on tree-trunks with outspread wings, in which position it so closely resembles 

 a patch of moss that it is extremely difficult to detect, even when specially searched for. 



CHLOBOCLYSTIS ANTAECTICA, n. up. 

 (Plate VI., fig. 20.) 



This species was discovered by Mr. Philpott at West Plains, near Invercargill. 



The expansion of the wings is | inch. The fore- wings are rather dull green ; there is a 

 reddish-brown patch near the base, followed by two, slightly oblique, reddish bands ; the central 

 band is very broad, green, traversed by numerous fine wavy lines ; there is a broad reddish band 

 on the termen. The hind-wings are slaty-grey, tinged with pink towards the termen and dorsum. 

 The cilia of all the wings are pink barred with black. 



Two other specimens kindly given to me by Mr. Philpott have the bands on the 

 fore-wings more or less brown in place of red, but are otherwise identical. 



This insect is evidently very closely allied to C. bilineolata, but its larger size, 

 longer wings, and barred cilia will, I think, distinguish it from that species. 



The perfect insect appears in November. 



CHLOBOCLYSTIS ABISTIAS, Meyr. 

 (Chloroclystis aristias, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1897, 385.) 



(Plate VI., fig. 21 $ , 22 2 .) 



This beautiful insect was discovered on the Mount Arthur Tableland in January, 

 1896, at an elevation of about 4,000 feet. 



The expansion of the wings is 1J inches. All the wings are very pale greenish-grey. The 

 male has three distinct dark brownish bands near the base, an irregular broad suffused band 

 near the middle, becoming obsolete before it reaches the dorsum, a dark patch at the apex, 

 another patch on the termen below the apex and another near the tornus. The hind-wings are 

 traversed by numerous, very fine, wavy blackish lines, becoming darker towards the dorsum. In 

 the female there are three wavy reddish-brown bands on the costa of the fore-wings, becoming 

 obsolete towards the dorsum, then a wavy yellowish line, followed by two rust-red patches. The 

 hind-wings resemble those of the male. Both sexes have the veins dotted with black, and the 

 cilia of all the wings are grey barred with black. 



* N. Z. ' Journal of Science,' July, 1884, 



