p. BuLLER. — Notes on some Species of TMitrnal Mothx. 



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The carapace is smooth, convex, broader in front than behind, anterior 

 margin siunate, with a small depressed rostrum, grooved along the middle. 

 Anterior-lateral angles produced into a point. Ophthalmic peduncles reach- 

 ing to the angles of the carapace ; the grooves which protect them have 

 the margins finely crenated. As in all the members of the genus, the right 

 hand is very large, being nearly twice as long as the greatest width of the 

 carapace, or just four times the length of the ophthalmic peduncle. 

 External surface of hand and wrist coarsely granulate ; fingers two-thirds 

 total length of hand. External face 

 of immobile finger with a groove 

 running the whole length. The 

 fingers, when closed, leave a con- 

 siderable interspace ; the inner 

 margin of each finger furnished with very coarse granules. Fingers meeting 

 at the tips for one-fourth of their length. Abdomen of male and female 

 seven-jointed. 



Hab. Wellington. 



Mys is meinertzhageni. 



Carapace of moderate length, very slender, 

 rostrum short and obtuse. Middle plate of 

 tail short, not more than half the length of 

 the laterals, broad and entire, apex obtuse, 

 margins serrated. Lateral plates narroAv, 

 lanceolate, margins furnished with very long 

 hairs. 



Hah. "Waimarama. 



Art. XXXII =—.Yo^^s on some Species of Diurnal Moths. By Percy Bulleb. 

 Communicated by W. L. Buller, C.M.G., ScD., F.E.S., Vice-president. 

 [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, Uth Februarij, 1881.] 

 Bronze-wing Moth. {Plmia eriosoma.) 

 This moth is very plentiful in the Auckland district, but less so in other 

 parts of the North Island. It is both diurnal and nocturnal in its habits, 

 and is especially abundant on the flowering French clover and lucerne. 

 When at rest it presents a somewhat singular appearance, from the pointed 

 shape of its closed wings. 



Appears in February and lasts till April, 



