Merricx.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 79 
87. Lar. cataphracta, n. sp. 
Female. —29-31 mm.  Forewings moderate, hindmargin slightly 
rounded ; pale greyish-ochreous ; markings white, black-margined, some- 
times obsolete on costa; a basal patch and two curved slender fascia 
towards base, their margins dentate; a variable central fascia, sometimes 
rather broad and even throughout, but generally with margins approxi- 
mated or confluent below middle, margins hardly dentate ; a cloudy fuscous 
parallel line beyond this; a rather narrow fascia at $, shortly angulated 
in middle and towards costa, margins entire; beyond this a cloudy fuscous 
parallel line; a dentate white subterminal line; a short cloudy white 
oblique subapical streak, beneath blackish-margined : cilia whitish, some- 
times barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
` extremely pale greyish-ochreous ; cilia as in forewings. 
` Variable in the form of the central fascia, and in the distinctness of the 
bars of the cilia, which are sometimes wholly absent. I have not seen the 
male, but the species is so apparently allied to the following, that there can 
be little doubt of its position. 
Arthur’s Pass (3,000 feet), Lake Guyon, and Lake Wakatipu (4,000 
feet), amongst grass, from December to March; seven specimens, 
38. Lar. clarata, Walk. 
(Larentia elarata, Walk., 1197, Butl. Cat., pl. iii, 14; Cidaria pyramaria, Gn., 
.M.M., v., 93.) 
Male, female.—98-85 mm. Forewings e olcala, hindmargin rounded; 
light brownish-ochreous ; markings white, margined by dentate blackish 
lines, sometimes obsolete on costa; a small basal patch; two narrow 
curved fascise towards base; a moderate median fascia, contracted or often 
obsolete in middle by coalescence of its margins, containing a strongly- 
marked black discal dot; a narrow irregular fascia beyond middle, sinuate 
beneath costa, rather strongly angulated in middle; a sinuate dentate 
blackish stria rather before this, and a second beyond it; a well-marked 
subterminal line; cilia white, barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin rounded ; ochreous-yellow ; cilia as in forewings. 
Variable only in the form of the central fascia; always easily separ- 
able from the preceding by the yellow hindwings and more dentate 
markings. 
Castle Hill (2,500 feet), Mount Hutt, and Dunedin, in open grassy 
places, in December and January ; thirty specimens. 
89. Lar. beata, Butl. 
(Cidaria beata, Buti., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 397, pl. xliii., ET 
Male, female.—22-28 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
olive-green, irregularly mixed with whitish-yellowish, tending to form trans- 
verse strie; a narrow strongly-curved blackish-green fascia near base, 
