Mzvnick.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 87 
Easily separated from the preceding by the barred cilia, the absence of 
any clear yellow colouring, the less prominent angulation of the post- 
median line, and the more elongate wings. 
I found the species common amongst grass on Ben Lomond, Lake 
Wakatipu, at about 5,000 feet, in December ; five specimens. 
55. Pas. strategica, n. sp. 
Female.—35 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; dark 
fuscous, thinly irrorated with yellowish; a slender straight oblique white 
fascia towards base ; a narrow somewhat irregular slightly curved white 
fascia before middle; a narrow whitish median fascia, broadly suffused with 
yellowish, bent above middle ; a rather narrow well-defined white fascia ` 
beyond middle, sharply angulated in disc; a sharply dentate white sub- 
terminal line; cilia barred with white and dark fuscous. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin rounded ; dark fuscous, base irrorated with yellowish ; 
a somewhat sinuate whitish fascia suffused with yellowish before middle; a 
white strongly angulated fascia beyond middle ; subterminal line and cilia 
as in forewings. Hindwings beneath suffused with golden-yellow ; mark- 
ings as above. 
A fine and conspicuous species. , 
Lake Guyon, in January; one specimen in Mr. Fereday's collection, 
received from Mr. Travers. 
56. Pas. callicrena, n. sp. 
Female.—34 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; blackish, 
irregularly suffused with light reddish; markings ochreous-whitish, dark- 
margined ; a slender somewhat sinuate oblique fascia towards base; a 
moderate twice sinuate fascia before middle ; a moderately broad sub- 
dentate fascia beyond middle, sinuate above middle; a sharply dentate 
subterminal line: cilia reddish-whitish, barred with dark fuscous. Hind- 
wings moderate, hindmargin rounded; dark grey; a very obscure whitish 
line before middle; a moderate whitish fascia beyond middle, sinuate- 
curved in middle; subterminal line and cilia as in forewings; beneath 
ground-colour reddish. 
Probably constant; very handsome. 
Mr. R. W. Fereday took one fine specimen at the head of Lake Waka- 
tipu, high up the mountains, above the forest-level, amongst grass in 
January. : | 
57. Pas. perornata, Walk. 
(Fidonia perornata, Walk., 1672.) ! 
Male, female.—23-25 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
dark fuscous ; base narrowly orange mixed with white; four slender orange 
fascim, generally partially white except third; first straight ; second 
