82 Transactions,— Zoology. 
Constant; a very elegant insect. 
Castle Hill, taken by Mr. J. D. Enys ; seven specimens. 
È 45. Lar. chionogramma, n. sp. i 
Male.—28 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin slightly rounded, 
crenate; pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous, forming 
indistinct irregular striw; the suffusion of these forms a rather broad 
median band, its margins dentate, anterior margin concave, inter- 
ruptedly white-edged, posterior margin with a short bidentate median pro- 
jection, white-edged, more strongly and conspicuously on upper half; a 
black white-circled discal dot; a dentate white subterminal line, preceded 
by a dark suffusion. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin somewhat project- 
ing obtusely in middle, crenulate ; pale grey irrorated with darker; a 
median band of four dark grey lines; hindmargin suffused with dark grey, 
including a whitish dentate subterminal line. 
Probably constant ; although inconspicuous, not like any other. 
' Mount Hutt, in a wooded gully in December (Mr. R. W. Fereday) ; two 
specimens (not good). 
46. Lar. obarata, Feld. 
(Cidaria obarata, Feld., exxxii., 33.) 
Male, female.—20-26 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin very 
strongly sinuate, crenulate ; grey-whitish, sometimes more greyish or 
ochreous-tinged ; a basal patch of four outwards-curved subdentate 
blackish-grey lines, sometimes suffused together ; beyond these are two 
similar lines, often obsolete except on costa; two dark fuscous lines before 
middle and three beyond middle, sometimes suffused with grey to form a 
median band, its anterior edge irregularly concave, posterior edge strongly 
blackish on upper half, subdentate, with a moderately strong bidentate 
median projection; a small blackish discal dot; three or four indistinct 
dentate grey lines beyond this, often obsolete except on costa ; cilia barred 
with dark fuscous. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin irregularly sinuate, 
crenate; grey-whitish ; several angulated grey lines between 4 and hind- 
margin; sometimes basal $ wholly suffused with grey ; eilia spotted with 
dark fuscous. 
Somewhat variable in colour and suffusion. 
Wellington, Christchurch, and at the foot of Mount Hutt; a plain- 
frequenting species, especially attached to gorse-hedges (Mr. R. W. Fere- 
day), from November to January ; thirty specimens. 
47. Lar. petropola, n. 8p. ; 
Male, female.—89 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
dark grey, densely irrorated with bluish-whitish ; costa broadly suffused with 
ochreous-whitish anteriorly ; a very obscure curved ochreous-whitish line 
