Murr10x.—On New Zealand Geometrina. 99 
blackish on lower half or throughout; generally a small transverse discal 
spot; two parallel strongly sinuate dark fuscous lines somewhat beyond 
middle, upper half concave anteriorly, lower half concave posteriorly ; two 
parallel dentate dark fuscous subterminal lines, sometimes blotched with 
blackish above middle and on inner margin ; sometimes all these lines 
obsolete, and often a cloudy dark fuscous longitudinal streak near and 
parallel to inner margin ; a row of black dots on hindmargin. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin rounded; in male pale whitish-ochreous-yellow, in 
female whitish, posteriorly more or less irrorated with grey. 
Excessively variable; but the postmedian lines (when visible) have 
always the same characteristic form, different from any of the allied 
species. The posterior tibia of male are furnished with a long pencil of 
S. 
Christchurch, Akaroa, Mount Hutt, Dunedin, amongst bush, often at 
“rest on tree-trunks, in January and June; fifty-four specimens. 
76. Pseud. melinata, Feld. 
(Numeria, melinata, Feld., exxix., 9; Pseudocoremia indistincta, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1877, 394, pl. xliii., 8.) 
Male, female.—26-34 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 
in male white, in female whitish-grey, irrorated with blackish, and often 
dark olive-green; markings strong, blackish, generally suffused with dull 
olive-green ; two irregular dentate curved or angulated parallel lines 
| towards base; a sinuate line before middle, very variable in strength and 
intensity ; two dentate sinuate parallel lines somewhat beyond middle, 
second sometimes obsolete; two dentate parallel subterminal lines, first 
much more strongly marked; a hindmarginal row of black dots. Hind- 
wings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; in male whitish-ochreous, in female 
light brownish-ochreous ; often partially or wholly irrorated with grey ; 
base or hindmargin sometimes suffused with grey; generally a grey 
discal dot, subterminal line, and hindmarginal row of dots. 
Very variable ; the dull greenish tinge, however, is very characteristic. 
Wanganui, Wellington, Christchurch, Castle Hill (2,600 feet), Arthur’s 
Pass, (3,000 feet), and Dunedin, probably everywhere, amongst bush, from 
January to March ; fifty-one specimens. 
81. Boaruta, Tr. 
Face with somewhat projecting scales. Palpi rather short, somewhat 
arched, roughly scaled. Antenne in male bipectinated (2-8). Forewings 
with vein 6 from below 9, 7 from below angle of areole, 10 out of 9 above 
origin, anastomosing again very shortly with 9, 11 anastomosing shortly 
with 10, 12 anastomosing shortly with 11. Hindwings normal. 
An extensive genus, of world-wide distribution. 
