Meyrick. — On New Zealand Geometrina. 99 



blackish on lower half or throughout ; generally a small transverse discal 

 spot ; two parallel strongly sinuate dark fuscous lines somewhat beyond 

 middle, upper half concave anteriorly, lower half concave posteriorly ; two 

 parallel dentate dark fuscous subterminal hues, sometimes blotched with 

 blackish above middle and on inner margin ; sometimes all these lines 

 obsolete, and often a cloudy dark fuscous longitudinal streak near and 

 parallel to inner margin ; a row of black dots on hindmargin. Hindwings 

 moderate, hindmargin rounded ; in male pale whitish -ochreous-yellow, in 

 female whitish, posteriorly more or less irrorated with grey. 



Excessively variable ; but the postmedian lines (when visible) have 

 always the same characteristic form, different from any of the allied 

 species. The posterior tibiae of male are furnished with a long pencil of 

 hairs. 



Christchurch, Akaroa, Mount Hutt, Dunedin, amongst bush, often at 

 rest on tree-trunks, in January and June ; fifty-four specimens. 



76. Pseud, melinata, Feld. 



(Numeria melinata, Feld., cxxix., 9; Pseudocoremia indistincta, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1877, 394, pi. xliii., 8.) 



Male, female. — 26-34 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; 

 in male white, in female whitish-grey, irrorated with blackish, and often 

 dark olive-green ; markings strong, blackish, generally suffused with dull 

 olive-green ; two irregular dentate curved or angulated parallel lines 

 towards base ; a sinuate line before middle, very variable in strength and 

 intensity ; two dentate sinuate parallel lines somewhat beyond middle, 

 second sometimes obsolete ; two dentate parallel subterminal lines, first 

 much more strongly marked ; a hindmarginal row of black dots. Hind- 

 wings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; in male whitish-ochreous, in female 

 light brownish-ochreous ; often partially or wholly irrorated with grey ; 

 base or hindmargin sometimes suffused with grey ; generally a grey 

 discal dot, subterminal line, and hindmarginal row of dots. 



Very variable ; the dull greenish tinge, however, is very characteristic. 



Wanganui, Wellington, Christchurch, Castle Hill (2,600 feet), Arthur's 

 Pass, (3,000 feet), and Dunedin, probably everywhere, amongst bush, from 

 January to March ; fifty-one specimens. 



31. Boaemia, Tr. 



Face with somewhat projecting scales. Palpi rather short, somewhat 

 arched, roughly scaled. Antennae in male bipectinated (2-3). Forewings 

 with vein 6 from below 9, 7 from below angle of areole, 10 out of 9 above 

 origin, anastomosing again very shortly with 9, 11 anastomosing shortly 

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



An extensive genus, of world-wide distribution. 



