LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 595 



Female. Paler ochraceous. Antennae minutely setulose. Ab- 

 domen blackish ; hind borders of the segments cinereous ; tip 

 fawn-colour. Fore wings with four irregular oblique cinereous 

 bands, with small transverse bright ochraceous streaks, and with 

 several dark browu dots of which the disks are more or less silvery ; 

 three dark brown spots near tbe base of the interior border; third 

 much more elongated than that of the male. Hind wings with the 

 bands apparent on the upper side. Length of the body 16 lines ; 

 of the wings 40 lines. 



a, b. Auckland, New Zealand. From Mr. Oxley's collection. 

 Genus ELHAMMA, C. L. H. vii. 1561. 



ELHA MMA CERVIN ATA. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi validly porrecti, basi nigri, caput paullo 

 superantes; antennce serratce ; pedes dense pilosi ; alee anticce 

 obscure ochracece, vitta interrupta diffusa punctisque mar- 

 ginalibus nigris, lineis tribus obliquis e punctis nigris argenteo 

 signatis, strigis duabus argenteis nigro marginatis, la trans- 

 versa, 2a longitudinali ; posticce cinerece^ fuscescente mar- 

 ginatce, costa venisque ochraceis. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi stout, por- 

 rect, black towards the base, extending a little beyond the head. An- 

 tennae short, serrated, setulose. Abdomen tapering from the base to the 

 tip, extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs densely pilose. 

 Fore wings dark ochraceous, with a black diffuse interrupted stripe 

 in the disk, and with black marginal points ; three oblique lines 

 of black points, some of which have silvery disks; first and second 

 lines incomplete; two silvery black-bordered streaks; first streak 

 transverse; second longitudinal, at the middle of the length. Hind 

 wings cinereous, browuish about the exterior border; costa and 

 reins ochraceous. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 20 

 lines. 



a. Auckland, New Zealand. From Mr. Oxley's collection. 



Genus FRAUS, C. L. H. vii. 1564. 



Fraus BILINEATA. 



Mas. Ochracea ; palpi brevissimi, graciles, decumbentes y pilosi ; 

 antennce subpectinata? ; abdomen cinereum, lineare; alee 



