Meyrick. — On New Zealand Geornetrina. 79 



37. Lar. cataphracta, n. sp. 



Female. — 29-31 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin slightly 

 rounded ; pale greyish-ochreous ; markings white, black-margined, some- 

 times obsolete on costa ; a basal patch and two curved slender fasciaa 

 towards base, their margins dentate ; a variable central fascia, sometimes 

 rather broad and even throughout, but generally with margins approxi- 

 mated or confluent below middle, margins hardly dentate ; a cloudy fuscous 

 parallel line beyond this; a rather • narrow fascia at f, shortly angulated 

 in middle and towards costa, margins entire ; beyond this a cloudy fuscous 

 parallel line ; a dentate white subterminal line ; a short cloudy white 

 oblique subapical streak, beneath blackish-margined : cilia whitish, some- 

 times barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 

 extremely pale greyish-ochreous ; cilia as in forewings. 



Variable in the form of the central fascia, and in the distinctness of the 

 bars of the cilia, which are sometimes wholly absent. I have not seen the 

 male, but the species is so apparently allied to the following, that there can 

 be little doubt of its position. 



Arthur's Pass (3,000 feet), Lake Guyon, and Lake Wakatipu (4,000 

 feet), amongst grass, from December to March ; seven specimens. 



38. Lar. clarata, Walk. 

 (Larentia clarata, Walk., 1197, Butl. Cat., pi. iii., 14 ; Cidaria pyramaria, Gn., 



E.M.M., v., 93.) 

 Male, female. — 28-35 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 

 light brownish-ochreous ; markings white, margined by dentate blackish 

 lines, sometimes obsolete on costa ; a small basal patch ; two narrow 

 curved fasciae towards base ; a moderate median fascia, contracted or often 

 obsolete in middle by coalescence of its margins, containing a strongly- 

 marked black discal dot ; a narrow irregular fascia beyond middle, sinuate 

 beneath costa, rather strongly angulated in middle ; a sinuate dentate 

 blackish stria rather before this, and a second beyond it ; a well-marked 

 subterminal line ; cilia white, barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings 

 moderate, hindmargin rounded ; ochreous-yellow ; cilia as in forewings. 



Variable only in the form of the central fascia ; always easily separ- 

 able from the preceding by the yellow hindwings and more dentate 

 markings. 



Castle Hill (2,500 feet), Mount Hutt, and Dimedin, in open grassy 

 places, in December and January ; thirty specimens. 



39. Lar. beata, Butl. 

 (Cidaria beata, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 397, pi. xliii. , 6.) 



Male, female. — 22-28 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded; 

 olive-green, irregularly mixed with whitish-yellowish, tending to form trans- 

 verse striaa ; a narrow strongly-curved blackish-green fascia near base, 



