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n the colour of the veins this variety parallels the beautiful variety 
rubrinervis Till. of Drepanacra binocula (Newm.), which Mr. G. H. Hardy 
tock in Tasmania. 
ariety imperfectus nov.—A single specimen from Gisborne, N.Z. 
totins has the inner oblique band absent, replaced by the very faintest 
yellowish-brown tinge, while the outer oblique band is exceedingly narrow, 
of a bright umber-brown colour; Se and R are brown in both wings. 
Both the above varieties are in the Cawthron Institute collection. 
Micromus tasmaniae Walker. P 2.) 
Micromus froggatti Banks, 1 
This species is very common SERN Australia, Tasmania, and New 
Zealand. It is very variable in size, the expanse of the wings measuring 
from 11 mm. to 19mm. It also varies considerably in the intensity of the 
speckling of the forewings. The normal markings are a somewhat opaque 
with fuscous, slight clouding of the e gradate series, and a usually very con- 
spicuous small blo tch of dark fuscous covering the fork of M, and extending 
below it to Cv,. 
manapouriensis — Mr. Philpott captured, on the 13th 
February, 1920, two fine pA in which the normal spotting of the veins 
of the forewing is almost completely absent, being replaced by a much less 
conspicuous pattern of mr 3 age veins lightly speckled with a darker 
; also, the whole oth wings is suffused with a ve 
pale yellowish-brown зу which is ae quite absent in this species. 
The specimens are in the Cawthron дине collection. 
Variety nigroscriptus nov.—A single specimen was taken by Mr. Phil- 
pott in Nelson on the 29th Са 1920, which shows a very striking 
and unusual pattern on the wings. At first sight it would appear to be a 
new species; but I am unable to differentiate it from M. tasmaniae by any 
other characters except the wing- pattern, and so I prefer to name it as a 
variety only. In the forewing there is a curved black stripe occupying the 
narrow space between M and Cu, basally, and continued downwards along 
Cu,; the inner gradate series is conspicuously marked in black, and a 
subtriangular area at the apex, covering all the veins from the end of the 
pterostigma to the apex itself, and extending narrowly downwards along 
the first half of the outer gradate series, is also marked in black. In the 
hindwing the corresponding portions of the wing have the veins lightly 
marked in black, so that when the wings are folded in the position of rest 
the darkened areas reinforce one another. This specimen is in the Cawthron 
Institute collection. i 
Drepanacra binocula (Newman). 
Drepanepteryx binocula Newman, 1838. 
The number of species of Drepanacra described from Australia and New 
Zealand is quite considerable, and I myself have added two species from 
Australia and one from Norfolk Island, together with several varieties. 
There are also in my collection a number of other forms which once appeared 
to me to be good species. However, in the spring of 1917 I reared from a 
large brood of larvae on a single wattle-tree in my garden at Hornsby, N.S.W., 
more than two hundred specimens, undoubtedly all belonging to a single 
