Meyricxk.—On New ATE Geometrina. 107 
beneath apex, and a strong bidentate projection in middle; colour as in 
forewings, but basal half much paler; -a faint darker line near base; an 
irregular dark reddish-fuscous line slightly beyond middle, bounding the 
pale area. 
Constant. 
Nelson, Akaroa, and Mount Hutt, in January and February (Mr. R. W. 
Fereday); twelve specimens. 
40. Drepanopes, Gn. 
Face with cone of scales. Palpi moderate, triangularly scaled, por- 
rected. Antenne in male moderate, simple.  Forewings with vein 
6 from below 9, 7 from below angle of areole, 10 very shortly touching 
9, 11 rising out of 10 before angle of areole, 12 free. Hindwings 
normal. 
Also a characteristic South American genus. The single New Zealand 
species is very similar to some South American forms, 
89. Drep. muriferata, Walk. 
(Cana muriferata, Tata 1635; Panagra ephyraria, Walk., 1761; ? Zanclognatha 
ria, Feld., exxiii., 26; ‘Canela (?) haastiaria, Feld., cxxiii., 32.) 
Male, female—80-84 x mm. Forewings moderate, apex falcate, hind- 
margin bowed in middle; ochreous-brown ; costa marked with short fine 
blackish strigule ; some scattered black scales towards base and beyond 
line; a short oblique cloudy dark fuscous mark on costa at 4, two white 
dots placed transversely in disc above middle, surrounded by a darker 
suffusion ; a straight dark ochreous-fuscous line or row of dots from costa 
a little before apex to inner margin beyond middle; a cloudy dark grey 
curved shade from apex, becoming obsolete above middle. Hindwings 
moderate, hindmargin rounded; ochreous-brown ; a white discal dot; a 
straight dark ochreous-fuscous median line. 
Varies probably considerably in colour. The hindmargin of the fore- 
wings is represented in Felder’s figure of Z. cookaria as distinctly angulated ; 
I have seen no case of this. 
Taranaki, Christchurch, Dunedin, amongst forest, in February and 
March ; five specimens. 
SICULINA. 
SICULIDA. 
Being only acquainted with one genus, I can give no enlarged charac- 
ters for these higher groups. It will be sufficient to point out that the 
separation of vein 7 of the forewings from the stalk of 8 and 9, and the 
16-legged larva, remove the genus from the Geometrina, whilst the separa- 
tion of veins 7 and 8 of the hindwings distinguishes it no less clearly from 
the Pyralidina. 
