84 Transactions. — Zoology. 



49. Lar. anthracias, n. sp. 



Male. — 24-25 mm. Forewings moderate, liindmargin sinuate ; dark 

 fuscous, faintly striated, more or less sprinkled with whitish ; a curved 

 blackish line near base, posteriorly obscurely whitish-margined ; a curved 

 obscure whitish fascia at ^, blackish-margined and bisected by a blackish 

 line ; a well-defined black discal dot ; a white fascia, partially mixed with 

 fuscous, beyond middle, anteriorly strongly blackish-margined, posteriorly 

 more obscurely, and bisected by a blackish line, somewhat irregular, mode- 

 rately angulated in middle ; an obscure dentate yellowish or whitish 

 subterminal line ; an interrupted black hindmarginal line. Hindwings 

 moderate, liindmargin rounded ; dark fuscous ; two nearly straight lines 

 before middle faintly darker ; a faint paler or sometimes whitish sinuate 

 fascia beyond middle, margined and bisected with darker. 



Varies slightly in distinctness of pale markings. 



Mount Hutt, and Lake Wakatipu (5,400 feet), on the open mountain 

 sides, in December and January ; twelve specimens. 



50. Lar. bulbulata, Gn. 

 (Cidaria bulbulata, Gn., E.M.M., v., 94.) 

 Male, female. — 20-24 mm. Forewings moderate, liindmargin rounded; 

 dark ochreous-fuscous, irregularly mixed and striated with ochreous-whitish ; 

 a curved whitish line towards base, and another at ^ ; a double whitish 

 line beyond middle, strongly sinuate in and above middle ; in the included 

 median space are two irregular strongly dentate dark fuscous lines, more or 

 less wholly coalescing to form irregular rings, upper one largest and con- 

 taining a dark fuscous dot ; beyond the double whitish line is a more ob- 

 scure parallel line ; a strongly dentate ochreous-whitish subterminal line. 

 Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded; orange, faintly striated on inner 

 margin : cilia dark grey, tips pale. 



Constant, except in the forms of the median rings. 

 Christchurch, Castle Hill (2,400 feet), and Dunedin ; common in grassy 

 places, in September, January, and March ; twenty-five specimens. 



21. Pasithea, n. g. 

 Face roughly haired. Palpi moderate, second joint with long or very 

 long spreading hairs beneath, terminal joint moderate or rather long, often 

 concealed. Antennae in male bipectinated (a 3-8, b 5-10). Thorax beneath 

 more or less strongly clothed with long hairs. Forewings with vein 6 

 rising out of 9, 7 almost from angle of areole, 10 anastomosing moderately 

 with 9, 11 anastomosing moderately or very shortly with 10, 12 free. 

 Hindwings normal. 



Essentially distinguished from Larentia by the hairy under-surface of 

 thorax. 



