Meyrick. — On New Zealand Geometrina. 95 



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 7 from below angle of areole, 10 anastomosing shortly with 9, 11 anasto- 

 mosing shortly with 10, 12 anastomosing shortly with 11. Hindwings with 

 veins 6 and 7 separate, 8 free, not approximated to 7. 



71. Lyre, alectoraria, "Walk. 

 (Lyrcea alectoraria, Walk., 259 ; Aspilates (?) primata, Walk., 1076, Butl. Cat., pi. iii., 4 ; 

 Endropia mixtaria, Walk., 1506, Butl. Cat., pi. iii., 5 ; Amilapis (?) acroiaria, Feld., 

 exxiii., 6; Lyrcea varians, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii., 496.) 



Male, female. — 34-44 mm. Forewings moderate, apex acute, sharply 

 projecting, hindmargin obtusely angulated in middle, often crenulate; light 

 ochreous or brownish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with dots of slightly 

 darker or blackish scales ; extreme costal edge generally blackish or rosy ; 

 faint indications of a darker curved line before middle, a sinuate median 

 line, and an angulated line beyond middle, almost obsolete ; generally a 

 distinct blackish discal dot ; sometimes a round silvery- white spot below 

 middle, and another above and beyond middle, margined with dark fuscous, 

 often bisected by a dark vein ; often several suffused blackish spots towards 

 apex and hindmargin. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin crenulate, some- 

 what projecting in middle ; colour and markings as in forewings, lines 

 usually obsolete. 



Exceedingly variable in almost every respect. 



Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, amongst bush, from September to 

 January, and in April and May ; thirty-eight specimens. 



5. ENNOMDXE. 

 Forewings with areole double, single, or absent, 12 free or anastomosing 

 with 11. Hindwings with 7 veins (normal vein 5 absent), 5 and 6 separate, 

 7 free, approximated to 6 towards base. 



An extensive family of universal distribution, but not reaching any 

 degree of development in New Zealand. Most of the species occurring are 

 highly variable. As the genera are all small, I give a tabulation of all the 

 species together, besides that of the genera, 

 la. Antenna? of male bipectinated. 



2a. Vein 12 of forewings anastomosing with 11. 



3a. Vein 11 of forewings separate . . . . . . . . 29. Zylobara. 



3b. ,, ,, „ anastomosing with 10 .. ..31. Boarmia. 



2b. Vein 12 of forewings free. 



3a. Vein 11 of forewings obsolete .. .. .. ...28. Hybernia. 



3b. ,, „ „ present. 



4a. Vein 11 of forewings anastomosing with 10 .. 34. ' Declana. 



4b. ,, „ ,, separate. 



5a. Vein 10 of forewings touching 9. 



6a. Terminal joint of palpi short, conical . . 30. Pseudocoremia. 

 6b. „ ,, ,, long, clavate, exposed 33. Detunda. 



5b. Vein 10 of forewings separate . . . , . . 32. Barsine. 



