388 mr. a. g. butler on heterocerous [may 1, 



Pyralites, 

 Hypenid^. 



42. Rhapsa scotosialis. 



Rhapsa scotosialis, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iv. p. 1 150 (1865). 

 Colls. Dr. Hector and J. P. Enys, Esq. 



Herminiid^. 



43. Herminia lilacina, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 11.) 



Primaries olive-brown, shot with lilac and irrorated with black, a 

 minute annular marking at the base ; a transverse discal series of 

 dots, and a submarginal undulated line, black ; a rounded orange 

 black-edged spot in the centre of the cell ; the spot on the disco- 

 cellulars (" reniform " of Guene'e) B-shaped, orange, black-edged ; 

 secondaries sandy whitish ; external area and a well-defined trans- 

 verse discal line dusky ; margins of all the wings with a slender 

 brown line dotted with black, the fringe grey, with a basal yellow 

 line ; body corresponding in colour with the wings : primaries below 

 grev, the costal and external areas pale testaceous ; secondaries 

 whitish testaceous, irrorated with brown ; all the wings with a discal 

 transverse streak, and a submarginal series of spots brown ; fringe as 

 above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7' lines. 



South Island. Coll. Dr. Hector. 



44. Daraba paronalis. 



Scopulal paronalis. Walker, Lep. Het. xviii. p. 797 (1859). 

 Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



45. Scopula flavidalis. 



Margaritia flavidalis, Doubleday, Dieff. N. Zeal. App. p. 288 

 (1843). 



Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



iS. quadralis and S. dipsasalis appear to be varieties of this species, 

 they agree with it in marking. Botys olagalis of Felder seems to 

 be an aUied but distinct species. 



46. Mecyna ornithopteralis, 



Mecyna ornithopteralis, Guenee, Sp. Gen. Lep., Delt, et Pyral. 

 p. 411 (1854). 



Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



A very variable species ; the Botys maorialis of Felder may be a 

 form of it; it is certainly congeneric. 



ScOPARIIDiE. 

 A7. SCOPARIA DIPTHERALIS. 



Scoparia diptheralis, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iv. p. 1503(1865). 

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



