106 Transactions. — Zoology. 



mark on hindniargin above middle. Hindwings moderate, hindmargiu 

 rounded ; ground-colour as in forewings, posterior half sometimes reddish- 

 fuscous ; sometimes a faint irregular darker line before middle ; a minute 

 blackish discal dot ; a straight dark fuscous line rather beyond middle, on 

 inner margin followed by a cloudy dark fuscous spot. 



Variable in colour and strength of marking. 



Palmerston (Wanganui), Makatoku (Hawke's Bay), Christchurch, in 

 February and March ; eight specimens. 



87. Strat. streptophora, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 32-34 mm. Forewings moderate, costa somewhat arched 

 towards base, apex strongly projecting but hardly acute, hindniargin some- 

 what irregular, with a strong shortly bidentate projection in middle ; pale 

 whitish-ochreous-yellow, coarsely irrorated with ochreous-brown ; four dark 

 ochreous-fuscous lines; first towards base, irregular, shortly angulated near 

 inner margin ; second before middle, straight, rather broad ; a black discal 

 dot ; third beyond middle, strongly curved, oblique ; fourth subterminal, 

 curved, followed by a row of crescentic white dark-margined spots. Hind- 

 wings moderate, hindmargin crenate, with two more prominent teeth in 

 middle; ochreous-whitish, hindmargin more ochreous; some scattered grey 

 and ochreous scales ; a dark grey discal dot ; a subterminal row of grey 

 partially obsolete spots. 



Probably varies much in colour and intensity of markings. 



Otira Gorge (1,600 feet) and Dunedin, in January, amongst bush ; four 

 specimens. 



39. Azelina, Gn. 



Face with some projecting hairs. Palpi rather long, obliquely ascend- 

 ing, roughly scaled, attenuated. Antennae in male thick, simple. Fore- 

 wings with vein 6 from below 9, 7 from below angle of areole, 10 very 

 shortly touching 9, 11 separate, 12 free. Hindwings normal. 



A genus of some extent, specially characteristic of South America. 

 Guen^e made a separate genus (Polygonia) of the New Zealand species, but 

 without any point of distinction. 



88. Azel. fortinata, Gn. 



(Polygonia fortinata, Gn., E.M.M., v., 41 ; Caustoloma (?) ziczac, Feld., cxxxii., 4.) 



Male, female. — 33-38 mm. Forewings moderate, costa sinuate, apex 

 acute, projecting, hindmargin with a strong sharp tooth a little below apex, 

 and a broader subdentate projection in middle ; rather light reddish-fuscous ; 

 a dark reddish-fuscous curved line at -J, emitting two strong sharp angula- 

 tions posteriorly ; a dark reddish-fuscous discal dot ; a dark reddish-fuscous 

 line beyond middle, shortly and obtusely angulated outwards above and 

 below middle. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin with two short teeth 



