Muyx1cx.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 57 
2. AcipaLia, Tr. 
Palpi moderate, triangularly scaled, porrected. Antenne in male bicili- 
ated with long tufts of cilia (4-5). Forewings with vein 6 from below 9, 
7 from above areole, 10 out of 9 above 7, 11 anastomosing shortly with 9, 
12 free. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 separate, 8 very shortly anastomos- 
ing with 7 near base. 
A very large genus, almost cosmopolitan, but only represented in New 
Zealand by one species, which must be regarded as an established immi- 
grant from Australia. 
2. Acid. rubraria, Dbld. 
(Ptychopoda (?) rubraria, Dbld., Dieff. N.Z., ii., 286, Walk., 781; Fidonia (?) acidaliaria, 
k., 1037; Acidalia figlinaria, Gn., ix., 454, pl. xii., 8.) 
Male, female.—17-21 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
light ochreous, reddish-tinged, irrorated with blackish; a cloudy dark 
fuscous irregular dentate slightly curved line about +, a second in middle, 
and a third more blackish and followed by a narrow fuscous band at $ 
subterminal row of cloudy fuscous spots ; a small black discal spot on second 
line; a hindmarginal row of black dots, sometimes confluent. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin somewhat projecting in middle ; rather more reddish 
than forewings; a cloudy dark fuscous line before middle; a small black 
discal spot; three irregular dentate cloudy dark fuscous lines between 
middle and hindmargin, last two often forming rows of spots; a hindmar- 
ginal row of blackish dots, often confluent. 
Somewhat variable in intensity of colouring, but not otherwise; no 
difference between Australian and New Zealand specimens. 
Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Mount Hutt, and probably 
everywhere, except perhaps in the extreme south; also common to New 
South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania; in very dry grassy places, in Sep- 
tember, January, February, and March, very common ; thirty specimens. 
2. LARENTIDA 
Forewings with areole single or double, vein 11 anastomosing with or 
rising out of 10, 12 free, rarely receiving 11. Hindwings with 8 veins, 8 
anastomosing with 7 from near base to near transverse vein, rarely con- 
nected only by a bar near transverse vein, 6 and 7 almost always stalked. 
The genera represented from five natural groups or sections. 
la. Areole single. 
2a. Vein 8 of hindwings connected with 7 by a bar near transverse vein .. sect. A. 
2b. anastomosing Ad with 7. 
3a. Vein 11 of tesi separate from 12 . it et “a .. sect, B. 
3b. 5 running into 12 .. .. .. oe .. sect. C. 
lb. Areole id. 
2a. E S O .. sect. D. 
2b. z anastomosing strongly with 7 "i cà .. sect, E. 
