ARTTCLR JTT.-DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF MACKO- 

 LEPIDOPTEHA FROM THK SOUTHERN ISLANDS. 



By G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. 



PLATE II. 



Leucania pagaia, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 9.) 



The expansion of tiie wings is Ijin. The head and thorax are rather dark 

 brownish-ochreous, very densely scaled, the latter with a slight anterior crest. The 

 abdomen is paler. The antennae are reddish-brown, moderately bipectinated, the 

 pectinations without ciliations. The forewings are rather broad, with the apex 

 rounded, and the termen very oblique towards the tornus, brownish-ochreous slightly 

 tinged with greenish ; the markings are very obscure, consisting of four minute black 

 dots marking the boundaries of the reniform stigmata, a group of blackish scales 

 a little before the end of vein 1 ; four small patches of blackish scales between veins 

 2 and 3, 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 respectively. The hindwings are rather dark 

 brownish-ochreous, slightly reddish-tinged. The cilia of all the wings are ochreous. 



This species is closely allied to Leucania unica, but may be distinguished by 

 the slight greenish tinge, the absence of the ciliations on the pectinations of the 

 antennae, and the characteristic though minute blackish markings on the forewings. 



Described and figured from a single specimen captured by Dr. Benham on the 

 Snares. 



Xanthorhoe oxyptera, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 23.) 



The expansion of the wings is If in. The head, thorax, and abdomen are 

 brownish-ochreous, the last-named with two blackish spots on the back of each 

 segment. The palpi are slender, nearly as long as the head, whitish-ochreous. The 

 antennae are whitish-ochreous, with long black pectinations extending to the apex. The 

 forewings are elongate, narrow, with the apex extremely acute and the tornus rounded, 

 rather dark greyish-brown, very glossy, with the bases of the veins and a broad 

 costal band pale brownish-ochreous ; a small black discal dot. Hindwings narrow, 

 apex and tornus rounded, greyish-brown, very glossy, without markings except a 

 few extremely minute blackish marginal dots. On the underside all the wings are 

 whitish-ochreous, the costa of the forewing and the whole of the hindwing darker ; 

 the basal portions of all the veins are strongly marked in blackish-brown. The 

 cilia of all the wings are very pale-ochreous. 



This very interesting species, which may be at once recognised by its peculiar 

 outline, was captured by Captain Dorrien-Smith at the head of the northern 



