Meykick. — On New Zealand Geonietrina. 65 



and on veins, all parallel ; a small blackish discal dot ; a cloudy blackish 

 line beyond middle, dilated on costa, preceded by a fainter line, and bordered 

 posteriorly by a white line, central third forming a broad bidentate projec- 

 tion ; an indistinct whitish dentate subterminal line, preceded by a dark 

 fuscous shade, flindwings rather elongate, hindmargin rounded ; deep 

 ochreous-yellow, base mixed with dark fuscous ; an angulated median line, 

 an irregular subterminal fascia, and hindmargin dark fuscous. Forewings 

 beneath yellow, with two blackish ' posterior streaks from costa, and a 

 reddish spot beneath apex ; hindwings beneath reddish, disc longitudinally 

 whitish, with irregular median and subterminal blackish bands. 



Constant ; it would be interesting to know the cause of the beautiful 

 colouring of the under-surface, which is probably protective. 



Mr. E. W. Fereday found this species common in the grassy bed of a 

 dry lagoon near Lake Guyon, in February and March ; I beat a specimen 

 from bush in the Otira Gorge, at 1,800 feet, in January. Twenty 

 specimens. 



Section C. 

 12. Elvia, Walk. 



Face smooth. Palpi rather long, straight, porrected, densely rough- 

 scaled above and beneath, terminal joint short. Antenna in male stout, 

 flattened, bipectinated (2-J). Thorax somewhat crested. Forewings with 

 vein 6 from a point with 9, 7 from angle of areole, 10 anastomosing mode- 

 rately with 9, 11 out of 10, running shortly into 12. Hindwings with veins 

 6 and 7 stalked, 8 anastomosing with 7 from near base to near transverse 

 vein. 



13. Elv. glaucata, Walk. 



(Elvia glaucata, Walk., 1431, Feld., cxxxii., 25 ; Elvia donovani, Feld., cxxxii., 5.) 



Male. — 22-24 mm. Forewings moderate, costa sinuate, hindmargin 

 irregular, somewhat projecting above middle ; whitish-ochreous, usually 

 more or less wholly suffused with bluish-green or bluish-grey ; dark markings 

 varying from somewhat darker green to dark bluish-grey, but black niark- 

 ings'constant ; a straight dark fascia near base, bent inwards on margins, 

 posteriorly edged with black ; a narrow angulated cloudy dark fascia beyond 

 this ; an irregular angulated dark fascia before middle, edged with black 

 anteriorly ; a somewhat curved subdentate cloudy dark line beyond middle, 

 beyond which is a similar black line, interrupted below middle, dilated on 

 costa ; a broad dark hindmarginal band, sometimes containing a pale 

 subapical space, and an incomplete ochreous-whitish subterminal line. 

 Hindwings moderate, hindmargin dentate, with a longer tooth before 

 middle ; pale whitish-ochreous, hindmargin sometimes green ; basal third 

 5" 



