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On a small CoUectlon of Heterocerous Lepipoptkra, from New 

 Zealand] by Arthui; G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The series of Moths recorded in the present Paper, has been 

 sent to me for identification, by Professor Hutton, of the Otago 

 Museum, Dunedin; it is a singularly interesting little consign- 

 ment, not only from the comparatively large number of novelties 

 which it contains, but also from the assistance which it has 

 rendered in correcting the synonymy of the known species,- and 

 the light which it has shed upon the sexual differences of the 

 species of the genus Pseudocoremia. 



ARCTIID.E. 



1. Phacs Huttonii, n. sp. (No. 1). 



Nearly allied to P. interjixa of Tasmania ; primai-ies ]wle 

 ochraceous, with the borders and veins rather broadly black, a 

 submarginal transverse black line or stripe, or these wiugs might 

 perhaps better be described as black, with an alibreviated basal 

 dash, a cuneiform discoidal dash, an interno-median longitudinal 

 streak, five subconfluent longitudinal discal dashes, and a sub- 

 marginal series of small conical spots pale ochraceous ; a basal 

 subcostal carmine streak ; secondaries bright ochreous, greyish 

 on interno-median area ; an oblique black spot on the discocel- 

 lulars ; outer border, to beyond the first median branch, broadly 

 black, imiting with a large subanal marginal black spot, and 

 intersected by an interrupted macular ochreous line close to the 

 margin ; fringe ochreous ; body black, with sordid whitish 

 fringes to the tegula^ ; abdomen with ochraceous borders ; wings 

 lielow ochreous with black discocellular spots ; outer borders 

 l)lack, intersected by a series of ochreous dots ; costal borders 

 dark orange, the primaries with an ill-defined subcostal carmine 

 streak ; body black, pectus fringed with pale sericeous hair ; 

 tibiae and tarsi of legs ochreous ; anterior femora carmine in 

 front ; venter bordered and banded with ochreous. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Queenstown (two examples). 



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