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NEW ZEALAND LARENTIIDA. 365 
Antennz minutely pubescent. Wings ample, with a black mar- 
ginal line. Abdomen with two rows of blackish points. Fore- 
wings falcate, with four oblique, nearly straight black lines 
towards the base ; two curved black lines nearer the middle, pre- 
ceded by a dark brown middle band, which forms two whitish 
bordered patches of which the fore one contains the deep black 
discal streak and two black lines, and is thrice or eight times 
larger than the hind one; a pale cinereous exterior band, con- 
taining a nearly straight black line; submarginal line whitish, 
denticulate1, irregularly shaded with black. Hind-wings dull 
ochraceous, with blackish transverse lines along the interior 
border. Body 5-5% lines; wings 16-17 lines. 
The above is merely a variety, the normal form having the 
median belt complete.  Cidavia perversata, Feld., seems like a 
variety of this species. 
Cidaria clavata, Walk. (Cidaria pyramaria, Guénée).—Superior 
wings with wavy and toothed bands alternately white and wood- 
brown ; a whitish patch at the base, exceeded by a brown band, 
then a narrow white band, then a wider brown band darkest at 
the edges. The second white band is very distinct, and lines 
the inner edge of the median belt. The third white band lies 
in the centre of the median belt and may be reduced to two 
patches with crenate edges at the margins of the wing. The 
rest of the median belt is filled with light and dark brown wavy 
bands or lines. The outer edge of the median belt is bounded 
by a strong irregular white band. The fifth white band is sub- 
marginal and regularly crenate, crossed near the apex by an 
oblique white streak. The space between the fourth and fifth 
white bands is filled with brown bands. There is sometimes a 
black cellular dot in the third white band. Inside the fringe is 
a row of dark brown dots, the fringe is whitish and interrupted. 
Inferior wings uniform yellowish or fawn coloured. Fringe 
lighter, with black mark inside, interrupted. Below the superior 
wings are a brownish-yellow, shewing faintly the white bands of 
the upper side. The inferior wings are more distinctly marked 
below. The basal space is blackish-brown followed by a white 
band which runs nearly up to the cellular dot, following an 
indentation in the dark basal patch. This central white band is 
followed by brown bands, and these by a submarginal white 
band, regularly toothed. The rest of the wing is greyish brown. 
The marginal brown marks form an almost complete line inside 
the fringe. Abdomen with black dots. Antenne of male finely 
pectinated, antennee of female filiform. Expanse of wings about 
one inch and a third. We. , 
Cidavia beata—Above very similar in pattern to Cid. clarata, but 
much smaller, and the primaries with all the markings olive-green 
instead of bronzy brown ; the secondaries white instead of yellow, 
with a pale pinky brown outer border; thorax olive green; 
abdomen testaceous ; primaries below, with the basal area to 
the extremity of the dentated central band of the upper surface, 
madder-brown ; costa testaceous, tinted with olivaceous, and 
