Frrepay.— Description of a new species of Catocala. 459 
Expanse of wings, 2” 6”. 
Habitat: Wellington, New Zealand. 
I have named the insect after Mr. W. T. L. Travers, by whom it was 
presented to me, and who captured it in his greenhouse, at Wellington, in 
the autumn of 1870. 
I am not aware of any other representative of the Catocalide family 
having been taken or seen in New Zealand. 
Art. LVIIT.—On the occurrence in New Zealand of a Species of Lepidoptera 
belonging to the Cosside family. By R. W. Frerepay, C.M.E.S.L. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Ist June, 1876.] 
In the month of February last, Mr. W. T. L. Travers kindly forwarded to 
me a specimen of a very large moth, recently captured by Mr. H. E. Liardet, 
at Wellington. 
The insect is, unfortunately, in a very dilapidated condition, being 
. almost denuded of scales, and having little more than half its wings remain- 
ing. It has, however, sufficient characters to identify it as belonging to the 
Cosside family ; but as to species, or even genus, it does not appear to me 
to be clearly identical with any of those described in the ** British Museum 
Catalogue," the only descriptive catalogue available to me for reference. 
At the same time I imagine it must be a species comprised in that catalogue, 
as Mr. Fuller, the Taxidermist of the Canterbury Museum, informs me that 
he has seen hundreds of a similar moth about the gum trees in Australia, 
and therefore it must be very common, and its existence and description 
has doubtless been long ago recorded. 
The length of the specimen, from the front of the head to the anal 
extremity, is 40 lines, and the breadth of the thorax 12 lines, the head 
being extremely small in comparison—not more than 4 lines in breadth. 
The expanse of the wings (if perfect) would be about 90 lines. The few 
scales remaining on the insect indicate its general colour to have been some- 
what similar to that of Cossus ligniperda, but rather more hoary. 
A similar specimen was taken in the pupa state by Mr. D. O'Brien, from 
a log of jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), at Lyttelton, a year or two ago, and 
is now in the Museum at Christchurch ; and, at the time of its capture, 
large logs of jarrah and other timber imported for the harbour works were 
lying there. On that occasion I went to Lyttelton purposely to see if there 
were any indications of the timber having been bored by larve, and found 
several perforations in size and character such as would be made by a 
Cossus larva. 
