Heterocerous Lcpldoptcni j'nim Nciv Zealand. 491 



end of the cell, its outer edge, together with <a portion of the 

 outer uudulated line, indicating the renifomi spot, its inner edge 

 united at the extremity to an oblique black-edged whitish dash 

 which replaces the orbicular spot; an indistinct series of black 

 marginal dots ; secondaries chocolate-brown becoming pale 

 brown towards the base ; fringe pale brown intersected by a 

 darker line; head, collar, and centre of thorax rich chocolate- 

 brown edged with fulvous scales; first joint of palpi tipped with 

 fulvous; tegulaj dark brown Avith a sericeous slaty-grey lustre; 

 abdomen chocolate-brown with pale basal tufts; under surface 

 pale sericeous red-brown with darker margins and fringe ; 

 ])rimaries with whitish interno-basal area ; secondaries with a 

 lunule at the end of the cell and a bisinuated discal series of 

 spots black ; body below darker than the Avings, chocolate- 

 broAvn. Expanse of Avings 1 inch 7 lines. 

 Otago. 



More nearly alUed to G. tartarea than to any othcn- described 

 species ; the figure of G. tartai^ea is badly coloured, the black 

 spots being Avholly omitted. 



llADENIDiE. 



11, Hadena plena (No. 9). 



Eirma plena, Walker, Lep. Ilet. Suppl. iii, p. 744 (l-SG')). 

 Otago, in July. 



This species differs entirely from Erana in the structure of 

 the primaries. 



12. Hadena dehiUs (No. 11). 



Hadena dehilis, Butler, I'roc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. J^-Sf), n. 26, 

 pi. xlii, fig. G. 

 Otago. 



13. Hadena mutans (No. 12). 



Hadena mutans, Walker, Lep. Ilet. xi, p. (102 (1857). 



Xylina spurcata, Walker, Lep. Het. xi, p. 631 (1857). 



Mainestra anr/nsta, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. iv, pi. cix, 

 fig. 19. 



Wairarapa. 



It is possible, though scarcely probable, t.hat //. vintans, 

 hisignis, debilis, lignifasca, and vexata may 1je all modifications 

 of one extremely variable species. 



