Meyricx.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 95 
7 from below angle of areole, 10 anastomosing shortly with 9, 11 anasto- 
mosing shortly with 10, 12 anastomosing shortly with 11. Hindwings with 
veins 6 and 7 separate, 8 free, not approximated to 7. 
71. Lyre. alectoraria, Walk. 
(Lyrcea alectoraria, Walk., 259; Aspilates (?) primata, Walk., 1076, Butl. Cat., pl. iii., 4; 
dropia mirtaria, Walk., 1506, Butl. Cat., pl. iii., 5; Amilapis (?) acroiaria, Feld., 
exxiii, 6; Lyrcea varians, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii., 496.) 
Male, female.—34-44 mm. Forewings moderate, apex acute, sharply 
projecting, hindmargin obtusely angulated in middle, often crenulate; light 
ochreous or brownish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with dots of slightly 
darker or blackish scales; extreme costal edge generally blackish or rosy ; 
faint indications of a darker curved line before middle, a sinuate median 
line, and an angulated line beyond middle, almost obsolete; generally a 
distinct blackish discal dot; sometimes a round silvery-white spot below 
middle, and another above and beyond middle, margined with dark fuscous, 
often bisected by a dark vein ; often several suffused blackish spots towards 
apex and hindmargin. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin crenulate, some- 
what projecting in middle; colour and markings as in forewings, lines 
usually obsolete. 
-Exceedingly variable in almost every respect. 
Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, amongst bush, from September to 
January, and in April and May ; thirty-eight specimens. 
5. ENNOMIDA. 
Forewings with areole double, single, or absent, 12 free or anastomosing 
with 11. Hindwings with 7 veins (normal vein 5 absent), 5 and 6 separate, 
7 free, approximated to. 6 towards base. 
An extensive family of universal distribution, but not reaching any 
degree of development in New Zealand. Most of the species occurring are 
highly variable. As the genera are all small, I give a tabulation of all the 
species together, besides that of the genera. 
la. Antenne of male bipectinated. 
2a. Vein 12 of forewings anastomosing with 11. 
3a. Vein 11 of forewings separate .. wa +» 29. Zylobara. 
anastomosing with dor .. 91. Boarmia. 
2b. Vein 1 of La free. 
3a. Vein 11 of forewings obsolete .. i dè .. 28. Hybernia. 
3b. » present. 
dni Vein 11 of forewings atona with 10 +. 84. Declana. 
4b. separate. 
5a. orn 10 of forewings touching 9. 
vs Terminal joint of palpi short, conical . 30. Pseudocoremia. 
» long, clavate, exon 33. Detunda. 
5b. par 10 of foréiiiiugs separate ., .. 82. Barsine, 
