M)-2 Mr. Bi;tli;i: an <t siiiuU co/lrcUav <;/' 



pl•o^■e, upon careful cxaniination, to be congeneric, and re£cral)le 

 to a distinct and hitherto iincharacterized genus ; at present 1 

 cannot spare time to look into the matter critically, hut I am 

 isatislied that there is some confusion in the above-mentioned 



52. Lareiitid ? nifesccnK, n. sj). (Nos. 52, 51! & lOl). 



Intermediate between the preceding species and L. viegaKjiilatd: 

 ])i-i}naries pale lakey-brown, crossed by numerous undulated 

 brownisli lines, with indications of a broad central belt, cunei- 

 form blackish subapical patch and black discocellular dot, all as 

 in />. megaspilatd ; secondaries pale sericeous testaceous, crossed 

 in the middle by four parallel sinuous undulated grey lines in 

 ])airs; three similarly imdulated grey lines upon the external 

 area and the commencement of a fourth between these and the 

 central ones; external border pale lakey -brown, Avitli a marginal 

 series of black dots in pairs; fringe traversed by a gi'ey line; a 

 black discocellular dot ; head and thorax pale lakey-brown 

 speckled with blackish, abdomen pale testaceous banded with 

 blackish ; primaries below grey, costa pale ochraceous, a whitey- 

 brown discal band immediately following the limiting lines of 

 the central band, otherwise nearly as above, but the central lines 

 rather darker ; secondaries altogether darker than above, the 

 ground-colour sandy, the central lines blackish, the lines on 

 external bofder ill-defined; body below pale lakey-brown. Ex- 

 panse of Aviugs 1 inch 1 line. 



Otago (four examples). 



53. Lareutia? mcgaspilaiu (No. oS). 



L<inuli'a iini/a.yiilahi, Walker, Lep. llet. xxiv, p. ll'.lcS (],sr,2). 

 Cidarta udsata, Feldcr, Keise der Nov. Lep. v, pi. cxxxi, lig. 1. 

 Otago. 



in my former paper I followed Dr. Feldor, in referring this 

 species to Cida/ia, because of its apparent affinity to the C. caiigi-e- 

 gata grouji; it agrees with this latter in neuratiou and coloration, 

 but differs in its longer palpi, so that until Larcnt'ia is broken 

 up into several genera it will have to be retained, with its allies, 

 in that genus. 



