566 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



Plusiad^e. 



Hypenodes anticlina, n. sp. 

 Bhapsa octias, Huds., N. Zeal. Lep., 37, pi. vi, 7, nee Meyr. 



£ $ . 24-28 m.m. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous, 

 sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous. Forewings triangular, 

 costa arched anteriorly, slightly sinuate in middle, termen oblique, 

 waved, concave on upper half, obtusely angulated on vein 4 ; pale 

 whitish-ochreous, irregularly sprinkled with fuscous or brownish- 

 ochreous ; a short blackish line from costa almost at base ; first line 

 irregularly dentate, blackish, more or less partially obsolete ; a 

 rhomboidal spot of blackish-fuscous suffusion in disc above middle, 

 above which are two short blackish-fuscous marks from costa ; space 

 between this and second line forming an irregular suffused white 

 spot ; costal edge above this dark fuscous dotted with whitish ; 

 second line waved, whitish, interruptedly edged anteriorly with 

 blackish, curved inwards on lower half; subterminal dentate, pale, 

 edged with fuscous, space between second and subterminal lines on 

 upper third filled with blackish -fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 undefined dark fuscous dots : cilia fuscous-whitish, mixed with 

 fuscous. Hindwings grey -whitish sprinkled with grey ; a faint pale 

 curved postmedian line, darker-edged anteriorly. 



Two specimens, Wellington (G. V. Hudson), frequenting 

 dense forest ravines, from October to December. It is in 

 all essential structure a true Hypenodes, though differing 

 from all other described species of the genus in the peculiar 

 form of the forewings. For Mr. Hudson's unfortunate 

 confusion of this species with the Australian Hyperaucha 

 octias, Meyr., I must admit the responsibility, having mis- 

 led Mr. Hudson by a wrong identification ; the cause of 

 my error I cannot now exactly determine, but I am able 

 to correct it with precision; Hyperaucha octias is widely 

 different, generically and specifically, and is known only 

 from Australia ; the original description of the genus and 

 species and the Australian localities quoted are all perfectly 

 correct, and refer to it only, but the New Zealand locality 

 is erroneous, and is at the bottom of the subsequent 

 confusion. 



Phycitim:. 



Homaiosoma anaspila, n. sp. 



? . 16-21 m.m. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, irrorated with 

 white. Forewings very narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated ; 4 and 



