Lepidoptera Heterocera froia Ncir Zealand. 551 



36. Pseudocoremia indistiiicta $ (No. .S5). 



P.9eudoi;oreinia indistincta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. JiS77, 

 ]). 31)4, 11. 78; pi. xliii, fig. 8. 



One example witliout auteuua^ 



37. Pseuddcorcinid jiraditctiita, u. sp. 



$ Pseudocoremia productnta $ , Butler, Cist. Eat. ii. ]>. 497, 

 (1879). 



9 Ouly differs from the male in the greyer and less defined 

 markings of the upper surface of the primaries ; in the latter 

 character it more nearly resembles dull examples of the female 

 of P. prodnctata. Expanse of Avings 1 inch 4 lines. 



One specimen -without antennae, unnumbered ; possibly mis- 

 taken for the female of the preceding species, which its male 

 much resembles; indeed the species of this genus either run very 

 close to each other, or else are subject to strange and unusual 

 variations of pattern. P. prodnctata proves to be the female of 

 P. fragosata of Felder. 



38. Pseudocoreinia prodnctata (No. 86). 



$ Larentia prodnctata, Walker, Lep. Ilet. xxiv, p. 1197, 

 n. 69 (1862). 



$ Selidosema ? fragosata, Felder, Reise der Nov. Le^). v, jil. 

 cxxxi, fig. 20. 



One female example, a good deal injured. 



ACIDALIID^. 



39. Astlitna 6ubpnrpureat<( (No. 89). 



Astlieiia subptirpurcata, Walker, Lep. liet. xxaI, p. 1588 

 (1862). 



Three specimens, all more or less damaged. 



40. Asthena risata (No. 83). 



Astliena risata, Guenee, Plial. i, p. 438. n.. 725. 



One perfect and two broken sjiecinieiis; this species is new to 

 New Zealand. 



