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NEW ZEALAND LARENTIIDA. 361 
sal pairs of black dashes on each segment; primaries below grey, 
with darker white-bordered central belt ; costa cream-coloured 
between the markings ; a zig-zag white-bordered subapical stria; 
secondaries whitish, with a broad irregular central belt, formed 
by two blackish limiting lines and two grey intermediate lines ; 
the outer black line distinctly undulated; a very ill-defined 
blackish speckled submarginal band; body below testaceous. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch, 3 lines. 
Laventia ? rufescens, Butl—Intermediate between L. falcata and 
L. megaspilata. Primaries pale lakey-brown, crossed by numerous 
undulated brownish lines, with indications of a broad central 
belt, cuneiform blackish subapical patch and black discocellular 
dot, all as in Z. megaspilata ; secondaries pale sericeous testaceous, 
crossed in the middle by four parallel sinuous undulated grey 
lines in pairs ; three similarly undulated grey lines in pairs; three 
similarly undulated grey lines upon the external area, and the 
commencement of a fourth between these and the central ones ; 
external border pale lakey-brown, with a marginal series of black 
dots in pairs ; fringe traversed by a grey line; a black discocel- 
lular dot; head and thorax pale lakey-brown, speckled with 
blackish ; abdomen pale testaceous, banded with blackish ; pri- 
maries below grey ; costa pale ochraceous, a whitey-brown discal 
band immediately following the limiting lines of the central band, 
otherwise nearly as above, but the central lines rather darker ; 
secondaries altogether darker than above, the groundcolour 
sandy, the central lines blackish, the lines on external border ill- 
defined ; body below pale lakey-brown. Expanse of wings I 
inch, 1 line. 
Laventia ? invexata, Walk.—Cinereous.  Palpi porrect, rostri- 
form, shorter than the breadth of the head. Antenne of male 
moderately pectinated. Forewings minutely brown-speckled, 
with many blackish denticulated lines, of which the basal, in- 
terior, and-exterior lines are black, and more distinct than the 
others, and are partly shaded with blackish, which hue forms a 
discal patch; these markings are most distinct towards the 
costa; submarginal line pale cinereous, zig-zag ; marginal points 
brown, minute: costa slightly convex; exterior border straight, 
rather oblique. Hindwings with very indistinct lines. Body 
3-3% lines ; wings 9 lines. 
The smallest species of this group (Butler). 
Covemia squalida, Butl.—Silvery greyish-brown ; primaries 
above with the usual irregular central belt very broad, its central 
area dark grey, its borders broadly yellowish olivaceous, edged 
on both sides and intersected with undulated black lines; a sil- 
very-white line on each side of the central belt ; base olivaceous, 
traversed by blackish lines and limited externally by a white 
line ; a sub-basal yellowish belt occupying the space between the 
base and the central belt ; disc crossed immediately beyond the 
central belt by two yellowish-brown lines on a white ground, and 
followed by a white-edged band of the same colour; outer bor- 
der yellowish olivaceous; a blackish marginal line; fringe 
