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anteriorly suffused, posteriorly irregularly dentate and whitish-margined ; a 
darker or blackish-green median band, margined on both sides by first a 
blackish and then a white line, both margins irregularly dentate, anterior 
margin concave, posterior margin projecting beneath costa, and with a 
strong bidentate angulation in middle; within the median band is often a 
clear white space on costal half, and sometimes a smaller one on inner 
margin; generally a black discal dot; a dentate white subterminal line, 
anteriorly dark-margined: cilia with basal half yellowish, apical half 
white, barred with blackish. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
whitish-ochreous, sometimes slightly greenish-tinged, with an obscure row 
of grey spots before hindmargin ; cilia as in forewings. 
Variable in the presence or extent of the median white markings; 
allied to the preceding. 
Christchurch, Akaroa, Mount Hutt, Dunedin, Lake Wakatipu, com- 
monly amongst bush, from December to February, in April and June; 
twenty-five specimens. 
40. Lar. chlorias, n. sp. 
Male.—80 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin hardly rounded ; 
bright yellow; base of costa dark fuscous-purple ; a curved row of three 
very small dark purple-fuscous spots about }, and another of four spots 
before middle, costal spots larger; a triangular purple blotch on costa 
before apex, reaching half across wing, anteriorly margined by a strongly 
 Sinuate bluish-black streak; a row of three dark purple-fuscous dots from 
apex of this to inner margin, and a subterminal row of six similar dots ; 
cilia yellow. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; rather paler than 
forewings, with two curved posterior rows of cloudy purple-fuscous dots. 
A very beautiful and conspicuous species. 
I took one fine specimen in a wooded gully near Castle Hill, at 3,100 
feet, in January. 
41. Lar. egrota, Butl. 
(Selidosema egrota, Butl., Cist. Ent., ü., 499.) 
Male, female.—26-31 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
pale brownish-grey ; basal third with about eight fine dentate slightly 
curved dark grey striæ; a black discal dot; four similar strie placed together 
beyond middle; two others more indistinct forming a subterminal line, 
beyond which the hindmargin is slightly darker: cilia barred with blackish 
and whitish. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded; slightly paler 
than forewings, without markings ; cilia pale brownish-grey, sometimes 
barred. 
Only varying slightly in depth of colouring ; the isolation of the four 
postmedian strie is a good point. 
