272 1 December, 



This is the only species of LiheJlulina at present known from 

 New Zealand, and adds another to the ridiculousl}'^ small number of 

 Dragon-flies that appear to exist in the Colony. 



N.B. — Brauer quite correctly placed this species in Sympetrum 

 (Diplax) as characterized by (inter alia) the large elevated bilobate 

 posterior lobe of the prothorax. Mr. Kirby, ignoring this important 

 character, places it, and others with the same form of prothorax, in 

 Trithemis, Brauer, in the true species of which the prothorax is very 

 differently formed (Catalogue of Odonata, p. 18). 



Sub-fam. ^schnina. 

 ^scHNA BEETisTTLA, Eamb. — The examples from New Zealand 

 have perhaps a slightly different fades from the Australian typical 

 form. My examples are all from Canterbury, but when compiling 

 my list of New Zealand Neuroptera in 1873, I overlooked the fact 

 that Brauer had already recorded the species from Auckland (Reise 

 der " Novara ") ; it is in the British Museum from Canterbury, 

 Wellington and Auckland. 



Sub-fam. A gbioniiva. 

 Telebasis. — The two species from JSew Zealand placed under 

 this generic term have since been transferred by De Selys to 3^antha- 

 grion, Selys, and a doubtful " race " of JT. zelandicum is described by 

 him under the name antipodum, from a single imperfect $ , differing 

 from the type chiefly in small colour characters. Of X. sohrinum, 

 McLach., there are further examples in the British Museum. Colonial 

 entomologists will do well in carefully studying these small Dragon-flies. 



Lewisham, London : 



August, 1894. 



NEPTICULA CONFUSELLA, A NEW BIRCH-MININa SPECIES. 

 BT JOHN H. WOOD, M.B. 



Early in last May I had the satisfaction of breeding a few moths 

 from the new Nepticula larvse, provisionally known as " No. 1," which 

 were described at pages 95-6 ante, mining in the leaves of birch. 

 They were recently submitted to Lord Walsingham, who has most 

 kindly drawn up for me the following description : — 



Antennae in the $ long (reaching to the fascia when laid back at rest), shorter 

 in the ? , cinereous ; eye-caps whitish. Head amber-yellow. Thorax brownish- 

 cinereous. Fore-wings brovvnish-cinereous, with a slight purplish lustre in a strong 



