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about midway between the central spot and the apex of the wing, and a 
blackish speck on the anal nervure; the inner line by a blackish dot imme- 
diately below the postcostal nervure and close to its first branch, and a 
blackish speck on the anal nervure; and the half-line by a blackish dot 
between the postcostal and median nervures. 
Hind-wings, bronzy-brown, with pale ochreous cilia. 
Fore and hind-wings below shining fuscous, with margin of costa pale 
ochreous, and apex and hind margin of fore-wing inclining to pale 
ochreous, 
Expanse of wings : 1" 6"—31" 9", 
Habitat; Akaroa, Canterbury; and Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. 
The only specimens I have seen were taken by myself in the month of 
February, at Sugar, in à small bush on the shore at Akaroa; and in a bush 
at Dunedin—at the latter place only one specimen. 
The spurs of the hind tibi; of this insect do not accord with those of 
any of the genera of Leucanide, as described in the British Museum List of 
Lepidopterous Insects ;* and I might therefore not unreasonably consider 
myself justified in forming a new genus for this species, but refrain from so 
doing, inasmuch as Mr. Butler, of the British Museum, identified as Leucania 
semivittata, of Walkert, an insect having spurs similar to those of sulcana— 
at least so I infer from his having included L. semivittata in his paper ** On 
two collections of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from New Zealand, with descrip- 
tions of new genera and species ;”{ the collections which formed the subject 
of that paper having comprised numerous specimens of my own collecting, 
entrusted to Mr. J. D. Enys for the purpose of comparison and identification 
with species in the British Museum ; and amongst them were duplicate 
specimens, one of which was returned, labelled in Mr. Butler's handwriting, 
“ Leucania semivittata ;” and that specimen, and similar specimens in my 
collection, have the spurs of the hind tibie not * moderately long," as stated 
in the description of the genus Leucania in Walker's British Museum List, 
but each pair consisting of one long and one very short spur, as in sulcana 
above described. 
(?) Chlenias manwifera, sp. nov. 
(Plate IX., fig. 1.) 
Body rather stouter and more depressed that that of C. egregia of Felder. 
Head crested, as in C. egregia ; white above, black in front; a small white 
tuft above the proboscis. Proboscis long. Palpi porrect, extending a little 
beyond the head, as in C. egregia; third joint white, slender, clavate (not 
conical), more (not less) than half the length of the second, rather naked ; 
* Walker, Lep. Het., IX., p. 68, et seq. 1 Lep. Het., suppl. ii., p. 628, 
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