METACBIAS. TEKACOTONA. 469 



Hah. N. Zealand, S. Canterbury, Richardson Range. Ex'p. 32 

 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



*2065. Metacrias erichrysa. 



Metacrias erichrysa, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 749 (1890) ; 

 Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 4, pi. 4. f . 5 ; Kirby, 

 Oat. Het. p. 263. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, mixed with grey hair ; 

 antennae with some white scales above ; legs orange with some black 

 markings ; abdomen with lateral series of orange spots, becoming 

 ventral bands on terminal segments ; wings orange-yellow. Fore 

 wing with broad black fascia) on the veins ; a fascia on costal area 

 from before middle to apex ; a large spot on discocellulars ; the 

 fasciae on veins from lower angle of cell narrow to the curved post- 

 medial series of conjoined spots ; the fascia above inner margin very 

 broad. Hind wing with large discoidal lunule ; a subterminal band 

 formed by a wedge-shaped patch from costa to vein 4, where it is 

 conjoined to another wedge-shaped patch extending to submedian 

 fold, and a triangular spot on vein 1 ; a dentate terminal line from 

 apex to vein 4, conjoined to the subterminal band at apex. 



$ . Wings aborted, minute ; the legs short, stout and well- 

 developed ; uniform whitish ochreous. 



Hah. N. Zealand, Mount Arthur, 4000 feet, typef in Coll. 

 Meyrick. Exp. 88 millim. 



Larva. Black ; the hairs clothing the segmental incisions brownish 

 ochreous. Food-plant, Senecio hellidioides, January. 



Cocoon rather slight. 



Genus TERACOTONA. 



Type. 



Macronyx, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 6 (1874) ; nee Swains. Aves, 1837. suhmacula. 



Teracoiona, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 382 rhodophcea. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antennae 

 of male ciliated ; fore tibiae short, with large curved claw on inner side and short 

 claw on outer ; hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent ; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell ; 4, 6 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form a long areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of 

 -cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 8, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Abdomen scarlet above, whitish beneath. 



a. Fore wing not clouded with fuscous euprepia. 



b. Fore wing clouded with fuscous rhodophaa. 



B. Abdomen orange above and below, tinged with scarlet 



at base. 



a. Fore wing without subterminal black spots suhmacula. 



h. Fore wing with subterminal black spots above vein 5 



and towards inner margin suhierminata. 



