Meyeick. — On New Zealand Geometrina. 107 



beneath apex, and a strong bidentate projection in middle ; colour as in 

 forewings, but basal half much paler ; a faint darker line near base ; an 

 irregular dark reddish-fuscous line slightly beyond middle, bounding the 

 pale area. 



Constant. 



Nelson, Akaroa, and Mount Hutt, in January and February (Mr. E. W. 

 Fereday) ; twelve specimens. 



40. Drepanodes, Gn. 



Face with cone of scales. Palpi moderate, triangularly scaled, por- 

 rected. Antenna in male moderate, simple. Forewings with vein 

 6 from below 9, 7 from below angle of areole, 10 very shortly touching 

 9, 11 rising out of 10 before angle of areole, 12 free. Hindwings 

 normal. 



Also a characteristic South American genus. The single New Zealand 

 species is very similar to some South American forms. 



89. Drep. muriferata, Walk. 



(Gargaphia muriferata, Walk., 1635; Panagra ephyraria, Walk., 1761; ? Zanclognatha 



(?) cookaria, Feld., cxxiii., 26; Zanclognatha (?) haastiaria, Feld., cxxiii., 32.) 



Male, female. — 30-34 mm. Forewings moderate, apex falcate, hind- 

 margin bowed in middle ; ochreous-brown ; costa marked with short fine 

 blackish strigulas ; some scattered black scales towards base and beyond 

 line ; a short oblique cloudy dark fuscous mark on costa at ^, two white 

 dots placed transversely in disc above middle, surrounded by a darker 

 suffusion ; a straight dark ochreous-fuscous line or row of dots from costa 

 a little before apex to inner margin beyond middle ; a cloudy dark grey 

 curved shade from apex, becoming obsolete above middle. Hindwings 

 moderate, hindmargin rounded ; ochreous-brown ; a white discal dot ; a 

 straight dark ochreous-fuscous median line. 



Varies probably considerably in colour. The hindmargin of the fore- 

 wings is represented in Felder's figure of Z. cookaria as distinctly angulated ; 

 I have seen no case of this. 



Taranaki, Christchurch, Dunedin, amongst forest, in February and 

 March ; five specimens. 



SICULINA. 



SlCULIMS. 



Being only acquainted with one genus, I can give no enlarged charac- 

 ters for these higher groups. It will be sufficient to point out that the 

 separation of vein 7 of the forewings from the stalk of 8 and 9, and the 

 16-legged larva, remove the genus from the Geometrina, whilst the separa- 

 tion of veins 7 and 8 of the hindwings distinguishes it no less clearly from 

 the Pyralidina. 



