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Female. Brown. Palpi broad, pilose, obtuse, very short. 

 Wings dull cinereous fawn-colour, with black marginal lunules. 

 Fore wings acute, slightly falcate ; basal space and middle space 

 brown, interlined with black ; outer side of the middle space much 

 more prominent than in C. congregata ; submarginal line whitish, 

 zigzag, diffuse, partly indistinct; discal streak deep black; exterior 

 border straight, rather oblique. Hind wings fawn-colour, with 

 brown lines, which are very indistinct, except alone: the exterior 

 border. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by the Bev. W. Colenso. 



84. ClDARIA PLAGIFURCATA. 



Mas. Fusca; palpi lati, breves, rostriformes ; antennae vix 

 pubescentes ; alee linea marginali nigra; antica product^ 

 subfalcatee, peracutce, lineis paucis nigricantibus subdenticu- 

 latis, spatio medio albido plagam anticam furcatam fuscam 

 nigro interlineatam includente, linea submarginali albida sub' 

 angulosa ; posticce pallide jlavescente-cer vines. 



Male. Brown. Palpi broad, short, rostriform. Antennae 

 hardly pubescent. Wings with a black marginal line. Fore wings 

 subfakate, much produced, very acute, with a few blackish slightly 

 denticulated lines ; costa with indications of several other lines ; 

 middle space whitish, including in frout a brown black-lined patch, 

 which is very deeply indented on the outer side; submarginal line 

 whitish, slightly zigzag, partly obliterated ; exterior border straight, 

 very oblique. Hind wings pale yellowish fawn-colour, with indica- 

 tions of brownish lines along the interior border. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 

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



Group 2. 



85. ClDARIA LESTEVATA. 



Mas. Olivacea ; palpi longi, porrecti, pilosis disjuncti, sat graciles ; 

 antennee robustce ; thorax brevissimus ; abdomen gracile y 

 longissimum ; alee anticee elongatce, apice rotunda tee, lineis 

 qualuor angulatis nigris intus cinereo marginatis extus 

 diffusis, 4a subinterrupta strigas emittente, margine exteriore 

 antice subconcavo postice perobliquo ; posticce parvec, cinerece. 



Male. Olive-green, greenish cinereous beneath. Palpi por- 

 rect, pilose, rather slender, apart from each other, nearly as. long as 



