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somewhat curved dentate fuscous strise, variable in strength and intensity ; 
fifth hardly dentate and sometimes obsolete, leaving a rather wide space 
between fourth and sixth; a small blackish spot on fifth above middle; 
hindmargin fuscous. + Hindwings moderate, hindmargin somewhat project- 
ing in middle; colour and stris as in forewings, but first three and fifth 
strie absent; a small blackish discal dot. 
Very variable in the presence and extent of the light brownish suffusion. 
Wellington, Christchurch, Mount Hutt, Dunedin; very common in 
bush, from August to peg and in rins thirty specimens. 
6. HERMIONE, n. 
Palpi short, slender, porrected, roughly n beneath. Antenne in 
male bipectinated (a 5, b7). Forewings with vein 6 rising out of 9, 7 from 
angle of areole, 10 shortly anastomosing with 9, 11 out of 10 considerably 
. before angle of areole, 12 free.  Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 short- 
stalked, 8 anastomosing with 7 from near base to near transverse vein, 
I allied to Epiphryne. 
6. Herm. wanthaspis, n. sp. 
Male, female.—27-380 mm. Forewings moderate; hindmargin hardly 
bowed ; bright yellow; costa suffused with reddish-fuscous, and marked 
with five short oblique darker marks; a transverse oval dark fuscous spot 
in dise above middle, sometimes touching costal suffusion ; a transverse 
row of very faint fuscous dots from last costal mark. Hindwings moderate, 
hindmargin slightly projecting in middle; very pale whitish-yellow ; two 
strongly curved transverse rows of very faint fuscous dots between middle 
and hindmargin. 
Apparently constant. 
Lake Guyon, in February and March (Mr. R. W. Fereday) ; 
specimens. 
7. Tayong, n. g. 
. Face with a slight cone of projecting scales. Palpi moderate, straight, 
porrected, shortly rough-scaled above and beneath. Antenne in male bipec- 
tinated (a 6, b 8). Forewings with vein 6 from slightly below 9, 7 from 
somewhat below angle of areole, 10 out of 9 below 8, 11 anastomosing 
rather shortly with 9, 12 free. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 stalked, 8 
anastomosing with 7 from near base to near transverse vein. 
7. Thyon. abrogata, Walk. 
(Aspilates abrogata, Walk., 1075 ; Fidonia (?) servularia, Gn., E.M.M., v., 43.) 
Male, female.—22-27 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin slightly 
rounded ; ochreous-yellow ; generally eight cloudy blackish somewhat bent 
transverse lines, variable in strength, often more or less wholly obsolete, 
especially towards base, usually in female; eighth generally rather thick, 
