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Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera. 
By ALFRED Рнпротт, F.E.S., Assistant peces Cawthron Institute, 
Nelson 
[Read before the Pie Institute, 14th July and 18th October, 1922 ; received by Editor, 
21st October, 1922 ; issued separately, 6th June, 1924.] 
Ichneutica dives n. sp. Дети. 
32. 39-46mm. Head and palpi ferruginous sprinkled with grey, apex 
of terminal joint of palpi сосы Antennae ochreous, in 9 whitish, 
ferruginous beneath, pectinations in $ j. Thorax ferruginous, thickly 
irrorated with grey, collar grey-whitish. Abdomen fuscous-grey. Legs 
ferruginous sprinkled with grey, all tarsi annulated with grey-whitish. 
Forewings moderate, oa almost "germs apex obtuse, termen rounded, 
oblique ; — rrorated with white and grey; an аген white 
laterally ; a white dot on costa above reniform ; second line dis auri 
dentate, exeurved on upper $, incurved beneath, white, black-margined 
anteriorly ; : subterminal line parallel wi with termen, obscure, ony vien; 
Me o m 
Mount per Tableland, ns an ле of 4,500 ft. Five males and 
two females taken at "sugar ecember and January. Holotype (3), 
allotype (9), and paratypes in coll. peel Institute. 
Persectania similis n. sp. 
d 9. 38-40 mm. Head and palpi reddish-brown sprinkled with white. 
Antennae reddish-brown, basally white, in male with short cilia. Thorax 
_ with slight blunt anterior orant, greyish-white ; ; & white frontal bar, 
margined beneath with blackish-brown and above with reddish-brown 
patagia margined with reddish-brown. Abdomen in 5 brown, in 9 grey. 
Legs reddish-brown, tarsi mixed with white. Forewings narrow, costa 
almost straight, apex blunt-pointed, termen rounded, oblique ; bright reddish- 
brown irrorated with whitioh ; basal area above middle for about lin Д 
clearer white, in 9 less marked and extending farther along costa ; 
blackish median streak from base to 4, margined beneath with ва 
reddish-brown ; a broad streak along dorsum suffused with whitish ; first 
line strongly dentate, white, posteriorly brown-margined, hardly traceable 
on upper half; an indistinct blackish line in dise above middle ; second 
line hardly distinguishable, blackish-margined, strongly dentate, apex of 
teeth marked by black dots; subterminal very strongly and irregularly 
dentate, dentations filled with whitish, anteriorly interruptedly blackish- 
margined ; stigmata almost obsolete, in female orbicular and reniform 
