268 Transactwns. — Zoolof/i/. 



about midway between the central spot and the apex of the wing, and a 

 blackish speck on the anal nervure ; the inner line by a blackish dot imme- 

 diately below the postcostal nervm*e and close to its first branch, and a 

 blackish speck on the anal nervure ; and the half- line by a blackish dot 

 between the postcostal and median nervures. 



llind-ivinys, bronzy-brown, with pale ochreous cilia. 



Fore and hind-wmgs below shining fuscous, with margin of costa pale 

 ochreous, and apex and hmd margin of fore-wing inchning to pale 

 ochreous. 



Expanse of ivings : 1" 6"'— 1" 9"'. 



Habitat : Akaroa, Canterbm'y ; and Duuedin, Otago, New Zealand. 



The only specimens I have seen were taken by myself in the month of 

 February, at Sugar, in a small bush on the shore at Akaroa ; and in a bush 

 at Dunedin — at the latter place only one specimen. 



The spurs of the hind tibi® of this insect do not accord with those of 

 any of the genera of Leucanidie, as described in the British Museum List of 

 Lepidopterous Insects ;* and I might therefore not unreasonably consider 

 myself justified in forming a new genus for this species, but refrain from so 

 doing, inasmuch as Mr. Butler, of the British Museum, identified as Leucania 

 semivittata, of Walkerf , an insect having spurs similar to those of sidcana — 

 at least so I infer from his having included L. semivittata in his paper " On 

 two collections of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from New Zealand, with descrip- 

 tions of new genera and species ;"| the collections which formed the subject 

 of that paper having comprised numerous specimens of my own collecting, 

 entrusted to Mr. J. D. Enys for the purpose of comparison and identification 

 with species in the British Museum ; and amongst them were duplicate 

 specimens, one of which was retm-ned, labelled in Mr. Butler's handwriting, 

 " Leucania semivittata ;" and that specimen, and similar specimens in my 

 collection, have the spurs of the hind tibiae not " moderately long," as stated 

 in the description of the genus Leucania in Walker's British Museum List, 

 but each pair consisting of one long and one very short spur, as in sulcana 

 above described. 



(/) Chlenias manxifera, sp. nov. 

 (Plate IX., fig. 1'.) 



Body rather stouter and more depressed that that of C. egregia of Felder. 

 Head crested, as in C. egregia ; white above, black in front ; a small white 

 tuft above the proboscis. Proboscis long. Palpi porrect, extending a little 

 beyond the head, as in 0. egregia; third joint white, slender, clavate (not 

 conical), more (not less) than half the length of the second, rather naked; 



* Walker, Lep. Het., IX., p. 68, et seq. t Lep. Het., suppl. ii., p. 628. 



I Proceedings of Zoological Soq. of London, May 1st, 1877, p. 382, 



