Meyrick.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 71 
17. Epyaxa, n. g. 
Face with a short cone of scales. Palpi moderate, triangularly scaled, 
porrected. Antennæ in male bipectinated (5-7). Forewings with vein 6 
from a point with 9, 7 from or somewhat below angle of areole, 10 anasto- 
mosing moderately with 9, 11 anastomosing moderately with 10, 12 free. 
Hindwings normal. 
la. Central band with a very strong broad abrupt projection... .. 25. chlamydota. 
1b. n T » small angular or rounded ^ 
2a. Hindwings whitish-ochreous .. n ia 
2b 
. 24. semifissata. 
: is rey. 
3a. Liu of central band nearly straight .. “e .. 23. orophyla. 
A T » js , strongly concave AS .. 22. rosearia. 
22. Ep. rosearia, Dbld. 
(Cidaria rosearia, Dbld., Dieff. N.Z., ii., 285, Butl. Cat., pl. iii, 13; Coremia ardularia, 
Gn., E.M.M., v., 63; Coremia inamenaria, Gn., E.M.M., v., 63.) 
Male, female.—25-28 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin very 
faintly sinuate; in male pale whitish-grey, faintly ochreous-tinged, in 
female generally more ochreous and sometimes yellowish ; numerous very 
indistinct darker strie, dotted with blackish on veins; a small rather 
darker basal patch, its outer edge sharply angulated above middle; a 
rather darker moderately broad median band, partially mixed with fuscous, 
its margins sometimes blackish on upper half, containing a paler space 
above middle, in which is an elongate transverse black dot; anterior edge 
of band rather deeply sinuate-concave, posterior edge shortly and obtusely 
projecting in middle and towards costa, somewhat concave on lower half; 
hindmargin suffusedly darker ; a short dark grey suffused oblique subapical 
streak: in female all markings are only rather darker than ground-colour. 
Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; whitish-grey, faintly striated 
with darker. 
The female is variable in ground-colour, the male very constant. 
Christchurch, Akaroa, Dunedin; very common, especially at light, in 
March and from May to September, so that it is essentially a winter 
species ; fifty-five specimens. 
C. ardularia, Gn., is the male, and C. inamenaria, Gn., the female of 
this species; C. subidaria, Gn., quoted by Butler as a synonym, is an 
Australian species and not identical. 
23. Ep. orophyla, n. sp. 
Male, female.—28-33 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin very 
faintly sinuate ; grey, slightly fuscous-tinged, and obscurely striated with 
whitish, sometimes with blackish dots on veins; a blackish line near base, 
irregularly bent near costa; a moderately broad median band enclosed by 
two fuscous blackish-edged fascie, sometimes confluent on lower half, their 
