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Lar, anthracias, n. sp. Dark fuscous; median band marked 
by two whitish black-margined double fascia, second angulated ;. 
a whitish subterminal IIne. Mount Hutt and Lake Wakatipu, up 
to 5400 feet. 
Lar. bulbulata, Gn. Christchurch to Dunedin. 
Pasithea, n. g. Characters of Zarentia, but thorax densely 
hairy beneath. 
Pas. insignis, Butl. Castle Hill. 
Pas. orphnaea, n. sp. Dark fuscous, mixed with yellowish and 
whitish; numerous irregular dentate blackish lines; cilia barred 
with black and white. Lake Wakatipu, 56v0 feet. 
_ Pas, mechanitis, n. sp, Dark fuscous, mixed and suffused with 
yellow, four white and yellow lines, third angulated, and a blackish 
median line; cilia white, basal half dark gray. Arthur’s Pass and 
Mount Hutt to 4600 feet. 
Pas. paradelpha, n. sp. Allied to P. mechanitis, but without yel- 
low suffusion, and cilia barred with white and dark fuscous. Lake 
Wakatipu, 5000 feet. ) 
Pas. strategica, n.sp. Dark fuscous, with four fascie anda 
sharply dentate subterminal line white, fourth fascia sharply an- 
culated ; cilia barrred. Lake Guyon. 
Pas. callicrena, n. sp. Dark fuscous, mixed with reddish; three 
fascie, and a sharply dentate subterminal ochreous whitish, dark 
margined, third fascia sinuate ; hind wings beneath reddish. Lake 
Wakatipu, 
Pas. perornata, Walk, Wellington to Mount Hutt. 
Pas. niphocrena,n. sp. Dark fuscous, mixed and suffused with 
orange ; two anterior curved dentate lines, and a post median an- 
gulated fascia white. Arthur’s Pass, 4500 feet. 
Pas. ferox. Butl. Castle Hill. 
Pas. zopyra, 0. sp. Smaller, darker, and more bluish than P. 
ferox; hind wings orange, with a basal patch, two slightly bent 
median lines, a subterminal line and hind marginal fascia dark 
fuscous. Mount Hutt. 
Pas. vulcanica, n. sp. Darker than P. ferox, markings more ir- 
regular and blackish ; hind wings orange, with basal halt’ a sinu- 
ate median line, and subterminal and hind marginal fasciz dark 
fuscous. Hawkes Bay. 
Pas. brephos, Walk. (brephosata, Walk.; catocalaria, Gn. ; 
Enysii, Butl.).Nelson to Invercargill. 
Pas. omichlias, n. sp. Dark grey, with darker and paler lines ; 
a darker curved fascia before middle, and an irregular fascia beyond 
middle, with a short projection ; hind wings dark grey, with three 
paler median lines. Castle Hill. 
Statira,n. g. Char. of Pasithea, but antenne of male simple, 
filiform. 
Stat, homomorpha, n. sp. Very similar to Pas. brephos, but post 
median line of hind wings angulated, widely remote in middle 
from median. Mount Hutt. | 
Stat. anceps, Butl. Nelson to Castie Hill, to 3100 feet. 
Stat. Hectori, Butl. Mount Hutt and Lake Wakatipu, to 5700 
feet, 
Dasyuris partheniata, Gn. Mount Hutt. 
Cephalissa, n. g. Char. of Panagra, but palpi less long, antenne 
of male filitorm, minutely ciliated, 6 from a point with g 
