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XVII. Descriptions of New Zepidoptera from Neiv Zealand. 

 By Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S., etc. 



[Read October 16th, 1901.] 



The following new species of Zepidoptera from New Zealand 

 were received from various sources ; those attributed to the 

 late Mr. Fereday were included amongst his collections 

 which came into the possession of the Christchurch Museum, 

 and were referred to me for examination. 



Caradrinid^e. 

 Orthosia fortis, Butl. 

 Toxocampa fortis, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii, 549. 



A specimen, without locality, from Mr. Fereday's collec- 

 tion ; previously unknown to me, and apparently to Mr. 

 Hudson also. It is too poor for description (the original 

 type is also exceedingly poor), but it appears to be properly 

 referable to Orthosia ; it can however be at once recognized 

 as distinct from all other New Zealand species of the family 

 by the peculiar black subbasal mark of the forewings, con- 

 sisting of a small black triangular spot in disc near base, 

 connected by anterior angle with a black triangular dilation 

 of the lower end of subbasal line. 



Zeucania toronenra, n. sp. 



$ . 30-32 m.m. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen light brown- 

 ish-ochreous, somewhat golden-tinged, terminal joint of palpi 

 moderate. Antennas moderately bipectinated to near apex. Legs 

 pale ochreous. Forewings with costa almost straight, apex obtuse, 

 termen rather obliquely rounded ; light brownish-ochreous ; veins 

 marked with more or less distinct slender blackish streaks, especially 

 median and subdorsal : cilia pale brownish-ochreous. Hindwings 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Four specimens, Mount Cook, at 2500 feet, in December 

 (G. V. Hudson). A neat and distinct species. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1901. — PART IV. (DEC.) 



