Puiteort.—Notes and Descriptions of N.Z. Lepidoptera. 153 
Hierodoris frigida n. sp. Cee 
$9. 11-13mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous with violet and 
purplish metallic reflections. Palpi yellow, terminal segment infuscated. 
Antennae black with grey pubescence. Abdomen fuscous-black densely 
fuscous mixed with greyish-white. Legs dark fuscous, tibiae and tarsi 
annulated with yellowish-white. Forewings moderate, costa slightly arched, 
apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, little oblique; dark ixed 
with black; а broad band of scattered white scales from costa at 4 to dorsum 
at 4; an irregular white spot on costa at $; three irregular violet-purple 
spots, first and second beneath costa before and beyond white costal spot, 
third below second, sometimes coalescing with it; «a broad subtermi 
band of scattered white scales, frequently occupying the whole of the space 
beyond metallic spots: cilia fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous : cilia pale 
fuscous with dark basal line. ; 
Differs from Н. iophanes Meyr. in the presence of the white bands and 
the arrangement of the metallic areas. 
un Mountain, Nelson, in January, Fairly common at 3,000 ft., 
flying close to the ground beneath Leptospermum and other scrubs. Holo- 
type (4), allotype (9), and a series of paratypes 1n coll, Cawthron Institute. 
. ei HEPIALIDAE. 
Porina mimica n. sp. 
. 84mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull brown. Antennae brown, 
in 4 moderately dentate - ciliate. s. 
oblique; pale-brownish mized with white; a suffused dark-brown central 
bsolete, enclosing the following 
ore or less oval ones 
one at 3, and sometimes 
a small linear one immediately beyond this; а whitish shade from before 
lete: cilia ochreous mixed with brown. ap Og р 
tinged with ochreous : cilia greyish-ochreous mixed WI n 
E: 38mm. Forewings dull dark brown; the central stripe 18 absent 
Invercargill, in October. Holotype (d), allotype (9), and one male 
paratype in coll. A. Philpott. One male paraty 
Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 40, p. 107, 1908. 
i 1 i been recorded 
Only four or five specimens of this species have so far : 
all of which have ое to be males, Мг. Е. S. Oliver has pP к 
the female, and that sex is 80 different from the other that I here giv 
a detailed description of it. 
Porina senex Huds., 
