Meyrick. — On Neiv Zealand Geonietrina. 89 



The pale terminal band of the undersurface is a peculiar feature. 



Castle Hill, taken by Mr. J. D. Enys ; two specimens. 

 60. Pas. zopyra, n. sp. 



Male. — 19 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; dark fuscous- 

 grey with a bluish tinge, with numerous regular dentate transverse strife 

 and a discal dot darker. Hindwings bright deep orange ; basal third dark 

 fuscous, its outer edge rather sharply angulated ; two parallel hardly bent 

 lines towards middle, a subdentate subterminal line, and a slender hind- 

 marginal fascia dark fuscous. Forewings and hindwings beneath orange ; 

 forewings with an irregular curved line before middle, four parallel sinuate- 

 curved lines beyond middle, subterminal and hindmarginal fascias dark 

 fuscous ; hindwings with a strongly sinuate-curved line at -J-, indistinct 

 curved median and subterminal lines, and slender hindmarginal fascia dark 

 fuscous. 



Constant; the smallest species of the group. 



Mount Hutt, on the shingle in the bed of a gully in January (Mr. E. 

 W. Fereday) ; six specimens. 



61. Pas. vulcanica, n. sp. 



Female. — 22 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; dark 

 fuscous-grey, somewhat mixed with whitish ; numerous irregular dentate 

 darker striae ; an irregular curved slender blackish fascia towards base ; an 

 irregular blackish fascia before middle ; another beyond middle, forming 

 two rather strong rounded projections in and above middle ; cloudy sub- 

 terminal and hindmarginal fasciae. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin 

 rounded ; deep orange ; basal half wholly dark fuscous, its outer edge twice 

 deeply sinuate ; a line near and parallel to this, an irregular dentate sub- 

 terminal fascia, and a hindmarginal fascia partly confluent with it, dark 

 fuscous. Forewings and hindwings beneath light orange, with two parallel 

 twice obtusely angulated lines beyond middle, subterminal and hindmarginal 

 dentate fasciae, also two straight incomplete anterior lines in forewings, and 

 a sinuate anterior line in hindwings dark fuscous. 



Easily recognizable by the dark basal half of the hindwings. 



I found this species settling on the roads near Makatoku, Hawke's Bay, 

 in March ; Mr. Fereday has it from the Kaweka range in the same district, 

 taken in January ; three specimens. 



62. Pas. brephos, Walk. 

 {Fidonia (?) brephosata, Walk., 1037, Butl. Cat., pi. iii., 14 ; Larentia catocalaria, Gn., 

 E.M.M., v., 62; Fidonia brephos, Feld., cxxix., 5 ; Fidonia enysii, Butl., Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1877, 391, pi. xlii., 9.) 



Male, female. — 23-25 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded; 

 brownish-grey, with dark fuscous markings ; numerous irregular dentate 

 transverse striag ; two before middle and three beyond middle more strongly 



