Ileterocerous Lupiduptcra frdni New Zealand. 493 



Adena xanthialis, Walker, Lep. Het. xxvii, p. 198, n. 1 

 (1863). 



Otago. 



Differs in colour from Walker's types, the primaries being 

 ochraceous instead of brick-red ; I have no doubt, however, that 

 it is a mere variety. 



19. Scopula Jlavklalis (Nos. 21 & 22). 



Jfargaritia flavidalis, Doubleday, Dieff., New Zeal. 1, p. 287. 

 n. 125. 



^, ?, Otago. 



The female example is slightly larger and darker than usual. 



20. Scopula notata. n. sp. (No. 20). 



Primaries reddish clay-colour, slightly sericeous ; discoidal 

 area dusky; a black-edged white rhomboidal spot at the end of 

 the cell; a grey discal line, arched beyond the cell, zigzag from 

 first median branch to inner margin ; fringe grey ; secondaries 

 pale creamy ochreous, speckled at apex and on interuo-basal 

 area with grey scales; two black spots placed obliquely at the 

 end of the cell; a marginal series of black dots; thorax red- 

 brown ; abdomen greyish, Avhite at base ; primaries below 

 blackish as far as the discal line ; costa and external area sordid 

 sandy-brown, tinted with a feeble rosy gloss ; white spot as 

 above; fringe grey; a marginal row of black dots; secondaries 

 silvery-white, slightly yellowish; black discocellular spots and 

 marginal dots as above; a discal irregular series of grey spots; 

 body below whitish, legs reddish. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



Otago. 



21. Scoparia conifera, n. sp. (No. 92). 



Primaries clay-coloured, speckled all over with snow-white 

 scales, and with a few black scales towards the inner margin ; 

 a blackish-brown band across the base ; a zigzag (almost 

 M -shaped) fascia, dark brown edged with white, from near the 

 base to beyond the end of the discoidal ceil, its superior angles 

 extending to the costal margin ; a broad external broAvn border 

 edged internally by a pale angular line ; a marginal series of 

 l^lackish dots ; secondaries sericeous brassy-brown, very pale 

 with dift'used dusky apical border ; fringe silvery-white ; body 

 silvery-whitish, the thorax longitudinally streaked with brown ; 



