ATETHMIA. 493 



black-brown diseoidal lunule, maculate sinuous postmedial line and 

 some spots on termen. 



Hah. N. Zealand, IS". Island, Wellington, S. Island. Dunedin, 

 Otago (Button), 1 $ type. Exji. -40 miilim. 



Genus ATETHMIA. 



Type. 



Tethea, Oclis, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 64 (1816), non descr. nee 



Tethia, Lam. Pise. 1816, or Te(hi/a, Oken, Spong. 1815 ... amhusta. 



Atefhmia, Hilbii. Verz. p. 238(1827) xerampelina, 



Cirradia, Giien. Noct. i. p. 401 (1852) xerampelina. 



Eucirra'dla, Grote, Can. Eut. vii. p. 206 (1875) pampina. 



Proboscis fiillj' developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond the large 

 frontal tuft ; fringed with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennre of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and hair-like scales ; tegulae dorsally produced to a ridge ; prothorax 

 with dorsal ridge-like crest; pectus clothed with longhair; abdomen I'athei- 

 triangular, with rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair, but without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute ; the termen crenulate, 

 slightly excised to vein 4 where it is angled, then oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form tlie areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen crenulate and 

 excurved at middle ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular large pamrpina. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular absent. 



a. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins xerampclina^ 



b. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins aiiibusta. 



2716. Atethmia pampina. (Plate CVII. fig. 11.) 



Cirroed'ia ■pamjnna, Guen. IVoct. i. p. 402, pi. 7. f. 2 (1852); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 224. 



Head and thorax orange suffused with fiery red, the scales tipped 

 with greyish ; abdomen yellowish tinged with red and with slight 

 red-brown segmental lines, the ventral surface red-brown, the hair 

 tipped with grey. Fore wing orange suffused with purplish red, 

 less so on costal area ; traces of a subbasal line from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial line slightly defined by yellowish on 

 inner side, oblique, very slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved below submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform large or 

 moderate, purplish red defined by yellowish, the former elli|)tical, 

 the latter constricted at middle ; postmedial line defined by yellow 

 on outer side, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line yellowish defined by purplish-red 

 suffusion on inner side, dentate, angled outwards at veins 6 and 4, 

 then incurved; cilia red-brown. Hind wing fiery red, the basal 

 and costal areas paler ; the underside yellowish, the costal and 

 terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with red, a diseoidal luQule and 

 sinuous red-brown postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing purplish pink with hardly a 

 trace of yellow, the markings indistinct. 



