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Masterton, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Mount Hutt, Dunedin, 
and probably throughout the islands; on tree-trunks, fences, rocks, ete., 
from November to March and in June, resting with the wings expanded as 
in Eupithecia ; eighty-four specimens. 
Section D. 
14. Tarosoma, Butl. 
Face smooth. Palpi long, straight, porrected, shortly rough-scaled, 
terminal joint short. Antenne in male simple, stout, gradually dilated 
from base to near apex, apex attenuated. Abdomen in male very exces- 
sively elongate. Hindwings in male deeply excised near inner margin, 
inner marginal lobe folded Y a long pocket, fringed with hairs. Fore- 
wings with vein 6 rising out of 9, 7 from or above angle of areole, 10 anas- 
tomosing moderately with 9, 11 anastomosing moderately with 10, 12 free. 
Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 separate, 8 free, united with 7 before trans- 
verse vein by an oblique bar. ; 
This singular genus is a remnant of a widely diffused but now fragmen- 
tary group, to which belong also Lobophora (Europe), Rhopalodes (South 
America), Sauris (Ceylon), and Remodes (Borneo). In all the hindwings of 
the male are peculiarly modified, usually much diminished in size, and with 
inner margin formed into a distinct lobe, the object of which is unknown. 
A similar structure is found only in one or two genera of Tortricina. Rho- 
palodes is the nearest genus to this, but vein 5 is said to be obsolete, and 
the lobe does not form a pocket; in Sauris the areole is simple, and the 
antenne thickly scaled ; in Remodes the areole is also simple, the antenn® 
flattened and scaled, and the inner margin is farnished with three super- 
posed lobular folds, so that it represents the extreme of development in 
this direction. 
Nore.—As terminations in -soma are often erroneously regarded as 
neuter by entomologists ignorant of the classical languages, it may be 
worth mentioning that such names as Tatosoma, Leptosoma, etc., can by 
their formation be nothing but the feminine of adjectives. 
la. Forewings green. 
2a. With four transverse lines vs ee wk. a .. 15. lestevata. 
. , numerous lines E i Ax sia "m .. 16. transitaria. 
1b. Forewings whitish-ochreous  .. 7 .. 17. agrionata. 
15. Tat. lestevata, Walk. 
(Cidaria lestevata, Walk., 1416; Sauris ranata, Feld., exxxi., 11.) 
Male.—84-85 mm.  Forewings moderate, costa arched, hindmargin 
very oblique, bowed above middle; yellowish-green, deeper beyond mark- 
ings; four irregular subdentate black lines, angularly sinuate, first towards 
- base, second before middle, third beyond middle, fourth broken aud ill- 
