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the demands put forth, in order to ensure their receiving due at- 
tention. Probably the best way to bring the question to an issue, 
would be for some one or other of the affliated societies to agree 
to a rough draft of a scheme which might be sent round to the 
other bodies for perusal, modification, and comment. Each 
might then appoint one or two delegates, to meet say at Welling- 
ton, with power to draw up a final scheme, which, coming from 
them as arecommendation of the scientific societies of the Colony 
would deserve the careful consideration of the ruling powers. 
I have pointed out many features in which there seems to me 
ereat room for improvement ; and were a Board of Governors 
appointed—thoroughly interested in their duties—they would 
find ample work to do in carrying out these improvements. 
NEW ZEALAND LARENTIDA. 
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BY ALEX. PURDIE, B.A. 
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PART I1.—Continued. 
Cidaria (?) rudisata, Walk.—Male, pale fawn-colour, pale 
testaceous beneath. Palpi broad, pilose, much shorter than the 
breadth of the head ; third joint very minute. Antenne mode- 
rately pectinated except towards the tips. Thorax and fore- 
wings with biack speckles. Abdomen compressed, extending 
a little beyond the hind-wings. Wings with black marginal 
points. Fore-wings acute, with a blackish patch in the exterior 
part of the disk, and with two submarginal blackish patches in 
which the whitish zigzag submarginal line is distinct ; costa and 
exterior border slightly convex; the latter rather oblique. 
Hind-wings testaceous white. Body 7 lines ; wings 16 lines. 
Cidaria callichlora, Butl—Nearly allied to the European 
C. miata, from which it differs as follows :—Primaries above more 
densely green ; basal patch smaller and darker, not so angular ; 
central belt wider, its inner edge not so sharply defined, its outer 
edge widely zigzag from above the second median branch ; the 
white sub-marginal spots replaced by a pale greenish festooned 
line ; the double marginal black dots replaced by <-shaped 
markings; secondaries crossed by two widely separated indis- 
tinct dentate-sinuate grey discal lines; no disco-cellular dot ; 
abdomen pale brown with white dorsal dots on each side of 
which are black dots ; below there are similar differences, but 
here all the wings exhibit black discocellular dots. Expanse of 
wings I inch 3 lines. In one example the primaries above and 
the whole under surface are more dusky, giving it a very different - 
aspect, 
