1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 40^ 



Museum collection from Auckland, and which Walker had con- 

 founded with Crambiis vitellus of Doubleday. 



112. Chilo leucanialis, n. sp. 



Primaries above silky testaceous, the internal area from the 

 median vein downwards more or less suffused with pale bronze- 

 brown, which is deepest immediately below the median vein ; a 

 longitudinal white streak above the median vein ; the veins beyond 

 the discoidal cell bronze-bi'own, their interspaces whitish ; secondaries 

 silvery white, slightly testaceous towards outer margin ; body creamy 

 white ; tegillse and upper surface of two anterior pairs of legs 

 brown : primaries below testaceous ; secondaries white, with a faint 

 yellowish tint ; body below white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



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



The colouring is not unlike that of Leucania, 



113. Eromene auriscriptella. 



Eromene auriscriptella. Walker, Lap. Het. xxx. p. 976 (1864). 

 Cr ambus gracilis, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lap. v. pi. cxxxvii. 

 fig. 26. 



Coll. Dr. Hector. 



114. Eromene metallifera, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 11.) 



Allied to the preceding species, but differing as follows : — 

 Primaries rather brighter in colour, the central ti-ausverse lines only 

 half as wide apart ; the silver discocellular spot less curved, and 

 edged with brown ; a series of longitudinal discal silver lines between 

 the veins ; secondaries white instead of brown. Expanse of wings 

 8 lines. 



Coll. Dr. Hector. 



This is a very beautiful little species. 



115. Samana acutata, n. sp. 



Primaries pale straw yellow ; an oblique interno-basal litura, a 

 dot at the end of the cell, and a discal transverse line terminating in 

 an acute < -shaped angle, piceous ; the discal line diffused externally ; 

 a marginal series of black dots ; secondaries white, with the fringe 

 creamy; a marginal series of black dots; thorax pale straw yellow, 

 abdomen white : primaries below pale testaceous, whitish on internal 

 area ; markings (excepting the marginal dots, which are united by a 

 slender brown line) only visible through the wing ; secondaries 

 white, the costal area tinted with testaceous, and sparsely irrorated 

 with brown ; a small black dot at the end of cell ; a marginal series 

 of black dots ; fringe creamy : body below pale straw yellow. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 



Sea-level, South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



In my opinion, this genus would be better placed amongst the 

 Pyrales. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1877, No. XXVI. 26 



