94 Transactions —Zooloyy. 
3. BOLETOBIDA. 
Forewings with areole simple, 11 separate, 12 free. Hindwings with 8 
veins, 6 and 7 separate, 8 free, approximated to 7 towards base. 
A very small family, probably approaching extinction, inhabiting moun- 
tains in Europe and probably other restricted localities. 
26. Cacorsonos, Butl. 4 
Face smooth. Palpi long, straight, porrected, roughly scaled above and 
beneath. Antenne in male pectinated on inner side only. Forewings with 
vein 6 from a point with 9, 7 from angle of areole, 10 anastomosing mode- 
rately with 9, 11 separate, approximated to 10 in middle, 12 free. Hind- 
wings with veins 6 and 7 separate, 8 free, closely approximated to 7 from 
base to near transverse. 
I have not seen the male; if Butler's description of the antenne is 
correct, it is the only New Zealand genus with uniserial pectinations. 
70. Cac. niger, Butl. 
(Cacopsodos niger, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 395, pl. xliii., 4.) 
Female,.—18 mm. Forewings rather narrow, costa sinuate, hindmargin 
sinuate ; white, slightly mixed with grey; inner margin narrowly grey; 
a slender black fascia almost at base; a slender black fascia at 4, dentate 
inwards above middle, dilated on costa; a slender black fascia beyond 
middle, sharply angulated in middle, dilated on costa, connected below 
middle with preceding fascia by a suffused bar; close beyond this a rather 
broad parallel grey fascia ; an indistinct grey subterminal line. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin rounded; dark grey. 
Butler described his species from a single male, which was very much 
darker than this, almost wholly suffused with dark grey, but I have no 
doubt of the identity of the species, which probably varies a good 
deal. 
I took a single specimen near Lake Wakatipu in December, at about 
1,500 feet. 
4. LYRCEIDA. 
Forewings with areole double, 11 anastomosing with 10, 12 anastomos- 
ing with 11. Hindwings with 8 veins, 6 and 7 separate, 8 free, not ap- 
proximated to 7. 
I have been obliged to form this family for the single included genus, 
which is allied to the Ennomide, but differs essentially from them. It is of 
a decidedly primitive type, and approaches in the hindwings nearly to the 
ancestral form of the group. 
27. Lyroza, Walk. 
Face smooth. Palpi rather short, slender, arched, appressed to face. 
Antenne in male filiform, simple. Forewings with vein 6 from below 9, 
