Meyrick. — On New Zealand Geometrina. 63 



9. Eur. cymosema, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 25-29 mm. Forewings moderate, lrindmargin rather 

 strongly sinuate ; brown-whitish, sometimes more or less suffused with 

 brown ; numerous fine dark fuscous sinuate subdentate lines ; three before 

 middle and four beyond middle more blackish, generally partially suffused 

 with brown, leaving a clear median space on costal half, in which is a trans- 

 verse blackish discal dot ; hindmargiu suffusedly greyish ; a suffused oblique 

 dark fuscous subapical streak. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin irregularly 

 crenulate, somewhat projecting in middle; grey- whitish ; several subdentate 

 grey lines, only distinct towards inner margin ; a dark grey discal dot. 



Variable only in the degree of brownish suffusion ; in the markings of 

 the forewings it agrees almost exactly with some forms of Harp, megaspilata, 

 but, apart from structure, may be always known by the whitish hindwings, 

 and rather larger size. 



Dunedin ; ten specimens sent to Mr. Fereday by Captain Hutton. 

 10. Harpalyce, n. g. 



Face with a cone of projecting scales. Palpi rather long, triangularly 

 scaled, porrected. Antenna in male bipectinated (5-7), Forewings with 

 vein 6 rising out of 9, 7 from angle of areole, 10 out of 9 below 8, 11 shortly 

 anastomosing with 9, 12 free. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 stalked, 

 8 anastomosing with 7 from near base to near transverse vein. 



Closely allied to Eurydice. 



10. Harp, megaspilata, Walk. 



(Larentia (?) megaspilata, Walk., 1198 ; Cidaria assata, Feld., cxxxi., 4 ; Cidaria 



nehata, Feld., cxxxi., 6 ; Larentia (?) rufescens, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii., 502.) 



Male, female. — 20-25 mm. Forewings moderate, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin strongly sinuate ; whitish-ochreous, reddish-fuscous, or grey ; 

 about eighteen transverse curved dentate fuscous or dark fuscous striffi; 

 seventh to twelfth usually darker or blackish, diverging so as to leave a 

 clear pale or sometimes whitish space between eighth and ninth towards 

 costa or throughout, containing a blackish discal dot above middle ; a 

 fuscous or blackish blotch towards hindmargin beneath apex. Hindwings 

 moderate, hindmargin sinuate above middle, obtusely projecting in middle ; 

 pale yellowish-ochreous, sometimes fuscous-tinged ; towards inner margin 

 indistinctly striated with fuscous. 



Very variable in colour, and also in the discal approximation of the 

 median lines ; the form of the forewings is, however, rather peculiar and 

 easily recognized. 



Makatoku (Hawke's Bay), Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Mount 

 Hutt, Dunedin, and probably throughout the islands ; common amongst 

 bush, from December to March ; forty-five specimens, 



