500 Mr. BtTTLF.rt o?? a f»naJI collect ion of 



46. Declana iiirfro-^parsa, n. sp. (No. 2), 



Wings snow-wliitG, the primaries slightly greyisli upon tlic 

 borders, a black-mottled subquadrate grey patch on the basal 

 half from the median vein to the inner margin ; an indication of 

 a belt just beyond the middle, represented by a diffused bisinu- 

 ated grey streak, and a series of ferruginous discal spots pai'allel 

 to it; a black marginal line; fringe traversed hy a grey line: 

 secondaries crossed from the origin of sul)costal branches to the 

 abdominal margin by tAvo subconiluent conical grey spots, a 

 darker lunule on ui)per discocellular ; a grey marginal line ; 

 body greyish, mottled with black and white, tegula; testaceous in 

 the middle ; abdomen with a longitudinal dorsal series of small 

 clay-coloured projecting -spots ; tibiic and tarsi white, banded 

 with black; antenna; white with clay-coloured internal surface; 

 under surface snow-white ; wings with slender brown mai-ginal 

 line ; the primaries with transverse conical grey spots as in the 

 secondaries; a bisinuated grey discal line; body greyish. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Otago. 



Nearest to D. jloccosa, liut with all the markings considerably 

 loss pronounced and witli white secondaries. 



47. Declana scahra (No. 4). 

 Argua scahra, AValker, Lep. Het. xxviii, p. 448, n. 1 (186?,). 

 Wairarapa. 



4<S. Declana niveata, u. sp. (No. 8). 



Snow white, the primaries covered all over with embossed 

 mottling; costal and outer borders faintly speckled with grey, 

 an irregularly undulated band of Avhich, limited internally by a 

 blackish line, runs across the disc ; external border limited in- 

 ternally by a very irregular interrupted line; traces of a blackish 

 oblique line across the basal third of the wing; costal margin 

 dotted with black ; secondaries immaculate ; body with slightly 

 greyish tegular; antenna; clay-coloured internally; sides of palpi 

 and a tuft on each side of the pectus behind the eyes, blackish; 

 under surface of wings and body snow-white, immaculate. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch o^ lines. 



Otago. 



Readily separable from all the other species by the much more 

 closely approximated lines which cross the primaries and the 

 immaculnte white secondaries. 



