1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 391 



59. ACIDALIA SCHISTARIA. 



Acidalia sehistaria. Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 782 (1861). 

 Coll. Dr. Hector. 



60. Acidalia undosata. 



Cidaria undosata, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pi. cxxviii. 

 fig. 2. 



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



61. Acidalia pr^fectata. 



Acidalia pra/ecfaf a, Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 781 (1861). 



Acidalia subtentaria. Walker, I. c. xxvi. p. 1610 (1862). 



Acidalia absconditaria. Walker, l.c.f. 1611 (1862). 



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



Now that I have placed the types of Walker's three descriptions 

 in one drawer, I find them to be slight variations of one and the 

 same species. 



FlDONID^. 



62. Panagra scissaria. 



Panagra scissaria, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 43 (1868). 



Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



This species hears a strong general resemblance to Walker's genus 

 Samana ; the latter should, perhaps, be placed near it. Panagra 

 ephyraria is congeneric with Gargaj)hia muriferata. I discovered 

 that Walker had placed the two together, but without moving the 

 label of the former from its original position. It seems to have been 

 a common practice with this naturalist, when he supposed two of his 

 species to be identical, to put the specimens imder one name, 

 leaving the labels undisturbed. This practice has given me incon- 

 ceivable trouble, and has wasted much valuable time. 



63. FiDONIA brephosata. 



Fidonia? brephosata. Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1037 (1862). 

 Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



64. Fidonia catocalaria. 



Larentia catocalaria, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 26 (1868). 

 Colll>J)r. Hector and J. D. Euys, Esq. 



I believe this to be a slight variety of the preceding species, and 

 to be identical with Fidonia brephos of Felder. 



6.5. Fidonia enysii, n. sps^Plate XLIL fig. 9.) 



Primaries above pale grey, crossed by sandy yellowish, white, 

 and dark grey bars and lines^ some of which form an irregular darker 

 central band ; outer border broadly dark grey, bounded internally 

 by a lunulated sandy stripe and intersected by a pale line ; fringe 

 alternately pale brown and whitish ; secondaries bright orange ; 

 abdominal area speckled with blackish ; a subbasal transverse black 



