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mark on hindmargin above middle. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin 
rounded; ground-colour as in forewings, posterior half sometimes reddish- 
fuscous; sometimes a faint irregular darker line before middle; a minute 
blackish discal dot; a straight dark fuscous line rather beyond middle, on 
inner margin followed by a cloudy dark fuscous spot. 
Variable in colour and strength of marking. 
Palmerston (Wanganui), Makatoku (Hawke’s Bay), Christchurch, in 
February and March; eight specimens. 
87. Strat. streptophora, n. sp. 
Male, female.—32-84 mm. Forewings moderate, costa somewhat arched 
towards base, apex strongly projecting but hardly acute, hindmargin some- 
what irregular, with a strong shortly bidentate projection in middle; pale 
whitish-ochreous-yellow, coarsely irrorated with ochreous-brown ; four dark 
ochreous-fuscous lines; first towards base, irregular, shortly angulated near 
inner margin ; second before middle, straight, rather broad ; a black discal 
dot; third beyond middle, strongly curved, oblique; fourth subterminal, 
curved, followed by a row of crescentic white dark-margined spots. Hind- 
wings moderate, hindmargin crenate, with two more prominent teeth in 
middle; ochreous-whitish, hindmargin more ochreous; some scattered grey 
and ochreous scales; a dark grey discal dot; a subterminal row of grey 
partially obsolete spots. 
Probably varies much in colour and intensity of markings. 
Otira Gorge (1,600 feet) and Dunedin, in January, amongst bush; four 
specimens. 
89. AzeLIna, Gn. 
Face with some projecting hairs. Palpi rather long, obliquely ascend- 
ing, roughly scaled, attenuated. Antenne in male thick, simple. Fore- 
wings with vein 6 from below 9, 7 from below angle of areole, 10 very 
shortly touching 9, 11 separate, 12 free. Hindwings normal. 
A genus of some extent, specially characteristic of South America. 
Guenée made a separate genus (Polygonia) of the New Zealand species, but 
without any point of distinction. 
88. Azel. fortinata, Bus 
(Polygonia fortinata, Gn., E.M.M., V., 41; Caustoloma (?) ziczac, Feld., exxxii., 4.) 
Male, female.—33-38 mm.  Forewings moderate, costa sinuate, apex 
acute, projecting, hindmargin with a strong sharp tooth a little below apex, 
and a broader subdentate projection in middle ; rather light reddish-fuscous ; 
a dark reddish-fuscous curved line at 4, emitting two strong sharp angula- 
tions posteriorly ; a dark reddish-fuscous discal dot ; a dark reddish-fuscous 
line beyond middle, shortly and obtusely angulated outwards above and 
below middle. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin with two short teeth 
