8 - Transactions.— Zoology. 
mountain beech, miscalled “ birch "), making a slight web amongst the 
leaves, from which it is very readily dislodged. Pupa short, stout, pale- 
greenish, irregularly shaded with brownish, in a slight cocoon. Although 
specially attached to the Fagus, on which it occurs in great abundance, the 
larva probably affects various shrubs; and I think I have met with it on 
. Fuchsia excorticata. 
Christchurch, Mount Hutt, Castle Hill, Arthur’s Pass, from J anuary 
to April; larve in all stages in January. 
3. EuLecuria, Meyr. 
Head loosely scaled, sidetufts large. Antenna in male moderate 
evenly and moderately or rather strongly ciliated (1 to 2), basal joint 
moderate, with strong pecten. Palpi moderate or rather long, second joint 
hardly reaching or rarely somewhat exceeding base of antenne, thickened 
with appressed scales, somewhat loose or slightly rough beneath, terminal 
joint somewhat shorter than second, moderate, recurved. Thorax smooth. 
Forewings elongate, moderate, apex rounded more or less strongly, hind- 
margin obliquely rounded. Hindwings slightly narrower than forewings, 
elongate-ovate, hindmargin rounded, cilia + to 1. Abdomen moderate, 
generally strongly margined. Posterior tibie clothed with long hairs 
above. Forewings with vein 7 to apex, 2 from or close before angle of 
cell. Hindwings normal. 
A very large Australian genus, represented in New Zealand by two 
species very different from each other, but quite of Australian types; they 
appear to be stray immigrants. This and the four succeeding genera are 
nearly allied together, and are quite distinct from those that precede and 
follow. 
8. Eul. zophoéssa, Meyr. 
(Eulechria zophoéssa, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1882, 515.) 
Minor, alis ant. fuscis, punctis disci tribus, macula coste post medium 
parva, strigaque postica flexuosa saturatioribus ; post. saturate griseis. 
Male.—154 mm. Head fuscous, mixed with whitish-ochreous. Palpi 
dark fuscous, second joint whitish-ochreous internally and at extreme 
apex, apex of terminal joint whitish-ochreous. Antenne dark fuscous. 
Thorax dark fuscous, becoming ochreous posteriorly. Abdomen dark 
fuscous. Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous, tarsi whitish-ochreous 
beneath ; posterior legs dark grey, apex of joints whitish-ochreous, Fore- 
wings somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin - 
obliquely rounded ; fuscous, slightly reddish-tinged, basal 3 irregularly 
mixed and suffused with whitish-ochreous, and thinly irrorated with dark 
fuscous, hindmargin rather broadly suffused with dark fuscous ; a small 
dark fuscous spot at base of costa, and another at base of inner margin; a 
