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Orthenches similis n. sp. ааа 
$ 9. 14-16 mm. Head white, tinged with fuscous. Palpi fuscous, 
second joint with apical ring white, terminal joint mixed with white. 
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bdomen greyish-fu cous, anal tuft paler. we rm anterior pair 
irrorated with brown ; markings dark brown ; outer margin of basal patch 
еы strongly oblique ; an outwardly-oblique thick fascia from before middle 
aching half across wing, enclosing a white spot in apical portion; tornal 
und бешм area dark brown, interrupted by upright white fascia from 
tornus which unites with white apical area of costa; two or three brown 
spots on costa above white tornal fascia ; sometimes a series of white terminal 
dots: cilia greyish-fuscous with dark basal line, on costa mixed with white 
and sometimes with subapical and tornal white spots. Hindwings greyish- 
fuscous, darker apically : cilia greyish-fuscous with a dark basal line. 
Very similar in appearance to O. semifasciata Philp., but the light and 
dark areas in that гает are more pronounced, the ground-colour being 
less irrorated with brown. 
Common at Robot from November to January in Nothofagus forest 
to 2,000 ft. Generally beaten from a species of Gaultheria. пате (d), 
allotype (9), and a long series of paratypes in coll. Cawthron Institute 
NYMPHALIDAE. 
Danaida chrysippus petilia Stoll, Suppl. Cramers Papillons Exotiques, 
An example of this butterfly was captured in January at ipia? by 
Mr. W. Wastney. Mr. б. V. Hudson (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 40, p. 104, 
1908) published the first record of the species for New Zealand, а specimen 
aving been brought to Mr. E. C. Sherlock, who states that he saw another 
at the same locality, a few miles from the Thames, Mr. Hudson gives a 
description and a figure. The Nelson specimen, which Mr. Wastney has 
kindly presented to the Cawthron Institute, is evidently the Australian 
subspecies petilia, and from Mr. Hudson's figure it would appear that the 
Thames specimen also belongs to that form. Both specimens are females 
PLUSIADAE. 
Sericea spectans Guen., Noct., vol. 3, p. 172. 
A specimen of this common Australian species was captured by 
Mr. W. Wastney at Nelson in February, evidently a chance arrival from 
the Commonwealth. A nn description is appende 
Expanse of wing, 88m Head, thorax, and abdomen dark chocolate- 
brown. Forewings dark саа 2 slightly ochreous-tinged on 
basal area and with violet metallic sheen in disc and towards dorsum 
three or four irregular dark-brown бст near base ; a double dark-brown 
fascia before middle; a broad dark-brown fascia beyond middle, broadly 
excurved on upper half to encircle a large black-ringed eye-spot; sub- 
terminal and terminal waved dark-brown lines. Hindwings dark chocolate- 
brown with a median putes fascia and a tornal blackish blotch 
containing two bluish-white spots 
