pa 
Muyrick.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 77 
Apparently variable in colour and suffusion ; distinguished however 
from all New Zealand species of the family by the approximation of the 
posterior margin of the central band to the hindmargin, which the angula- 
tion almost touches. 
Akaroa, Mount Hutt, Arthur’s Pass (2,600 feet), and Dunedin, amongst 
bush, in January and February ; five specimens. 
20. LarENTIA, Tr. 
Face with a more or less developed cone of scales. Palpi moderate, 
roughly triangular-scaled, porrected. Antenne in male bipectinated (a 8-5, 
b 6-8). Thorax not hairy beneath. Forewings with vein 6 rising out of 9, 
7 from (rarely above) angle of areole, 10 anastomosing moderately with 9, 
11 anastomosing moderately with 10, 12 free. Hindwings normal. 
Also a cosmopolitan genus, largely represented in New Zealand. 
la. Hindwings distinetly yellow. 
2a. Forewings with clear white markings. 
3a. With six white fascie .. i La ys $a .. 38. clarata. 
3b. ,, two whitelines .. “a di sa .. 94. stinaria. 
2b. Forewings without white La. 
3a. Forewings clear yellow. 
4a. With numerous datate brown lines a us .. 44. prasinias. 
4b. ,, four rows of dots «d +. 40. chlorias. 
3b. Forewings whitish-ochreous or rollos: 
4a. Median projection of central ES bidentate .. .. 43. helias. 
4b. » ‘s » unded .. . 50. bulbulata. 
1b. Hindwings not des. 
2a. Forewings suffused with green .. SA es .. .. 39. beata. 
2b. Forewings not green. 
3a. Posterior lines of forewings more oblique than hindmargin 35. prefectata. 
3b. not more oblique. 
4a. Alec flee of — rump aa “3 as .. 36. nephelias. 
4b. resen 
5a. Contes iad Vithodt cius seien 
6a. Cilia barred .. us .. 41. egrota. 
DD. n unicolorous $i és ca .. 42. psamathodes. 
5b. Central band with median moles: 
6a. Projection simple. 
Ta. Forewings dark fuscous-grey .. pe .. 49. anthracias. 
Tb. “a light greyish-ochreous To: +» 37. cataphracta. 
6b. Projection bidentate. 
7a. Hindmargin of forewings Gest sinuate .. 46. obarata. 
7b. F 
2 pedia large . is a i .. 47. petropola. 
5 non or small. 
p With a clear white line T" median 
a .. 45. chionogramma. 
9b. Without ,, b n n „ ++ 48. cinerearia, 
