1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 387 



This species certainly belongs to the genus Xylophasia. 

 Xylina provida and X. canescens of Walker are synonyms. 



AlMPHIPYRIDiE. 



37. BiTYLA ATRISTRIGA. 



Xylina atristri(/a. Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 756 (1865). 

 $ . Coll. Dr. Hector, S. Coll. J. D. Euys, Esq. 



38. BiTYLA DEFIGURATA. 



Xylina defigurata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 756 (1865). 

 Bityla thoracica, Walker, /. c. p. 869 (1865). 

 Coll. J. D. Eays, Esq. 



39. Bityla sericea, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 12.) 

 Primaries shining greyish brown, crossed by two widely separated 



and slightly diverging dusky lines, the inner one in "the shape 



of a j , the outer one composed of small lunules with whitish 



exterior margins ; outer margin undulated, fringe silky whitish ; 

 secondaries pale brown, fringe sandy whitish ; thorax greyish brown,' 

 collar slightly darker ; abdomen ? : primaries below pale grey, costa 

 and fringe whitish ; secondaries whitish, with a submarginal indistinct 

 grey baud, and the outer border, of the same tint, fringe whitish; 

 pectus sandy yellowish, dusky in front ; legs sandy yellowish, banded 

 with black. Expanse of wings I inch 6 lines. 



South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



One imperfect example. It is allied to B. defigurata. 



Heliothid^. 



40. Heliothis conferta. 



Heliothis conferta, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 690. n. 21 (1857). 

 Coll. Dr. Hector. 



EuCLIDIIDiE. 



41. EucLiDiA HECTORi, n, sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 4.) 

 Primaries very like those of the New-Zealand Fidotiice, shining 



grey, irrorated with white, with a central irregular broad band, edged 

 on each side with dark brown ; a broad brown outer border, through 

 the centre of which runs a pale lunulated line ; costa crossed by 

 oblique brown dashes ; fringe brown, spotted externally with white ; 

 secondaries with the basal two thirds whity-brown, crossed by three 

 nearly straight parallel brown bands ; apical third brown, crossed by 

 a slender irregularly undulated whity-brown line; fringe brown, 

 tipped with white ; body grey : wings below sordid white, with a 

 broad black outer border, crossed by a sinuous macular white 

 streak ; primaries with a transverse dash near the base, and three 

 bands (the outermost elbowed) across the central area, black ; second- 

 aries greyish at base, crossed by four parallel black bands ; body 

 below sandy whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



High-mountain form. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



Found at between 4000 and 5000 feet. Very difficult to catch. 



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