84 Transactions,— Zoology. 
49. Lar. anthracias, n. sp. 
Male.—24-25 mm.  Forewings moderate, hindmargin sinuate ; dark 
fuscous, faintly striated, more or less sprinkled with whitish ; a curved 
blackish line near base, posteriorly obscurely whitish-margined ; a curved 
obscure whitish fascia at 4, blackish-margined and bisected by a blackish 
line; a well-defined black discal dot; a white fascia, partially mixed with 
fuscous, beyond middle, anteriorly strongly blackish-margined, posteriorly 
more obscurely, and bisected by a blackish line, somewhat irregular, mode- 
rately angulated in middle; an obscure dentate yellowish or whitish 
subterminal line; an interrupted black hindmarginal line. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin rounded; dark fuscous; two nearly straight lines 
before middle faintly darker; a faint paler or sometimes whitish sinuate 
fascia beyond middle, margined and bisected with darker. 
Varies slightly in distinctness of pale markings. 
Mount Hutt, and Lake Wakatipu (5,400 feet), on the open mountain 
sides, in December and January ; twelve specimens. 
50. Lar. bulbulata, Gn. 
(Cidaria bulbulata, Gn., E.M.M., v., 94.) 
Male, female.—20-24 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded; 
dark ochreous-fuscous, irregularly mixed and striated with ochreous-whitish ; 
a curved whitish line towards base, and another at $; a double whitish 
line beyond middle, strongly sinuate in and above middle; in the included 
median space are two irregular strongly dentate dark fuscous lines, more or 
less wholly coalescing to form irregular rings, upper one largest and con- 
taining a dark fuscous dot; beyond the double whitish line is a more ob- 
scure parallel line; a strongly dentate ochreous-whitish subterminal line. 
Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; orange, faintly striated on inner 
margin: cilia dark grey, tips pale. 
Constant, except in the forms of the median rings. 
Christchurch, Castle Hill (2,400 feet), and Dunedin ; common in grassy 
places, in September, January, and March ; twenty-five specimens. 
21. PASITHEA, N. Y. 
Face roughly haired. Palpi moderate, second joint with long or very ` 
long spreading hairs beneath, terminal joint moderate or rather long, often 
concealed. Antenne in male bipectinated (a 8-8, b 5-10). Thorax beneath 
more or less strongly clothed with long hairs. Forewings with vein 6 
rising out of 9, 7 almost from angle of areole, 10 anastomosing moderately 
with 9, 11 anastomosing moderately or very shortly with 10, 12 free. 
Hindwings normal. 
Essentially distinguished from Larentia by the hairy under-surface of. 
thorax. 
