1868.] 



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NEW SPECIES, &c., OF HETEROCEROUS LEPIDOPTERA FROM CANTER- 

 BURY, NEW ZEALAND, COLLECTED BY MR. R. W. FEREDAY. 

 BY ACHILLE GUBNEE. 

 (ConUnued from page 43). 



Family xix. HYBEENID^. 

 Genus Hybernia.. 

 TIybeenia boeeophilaria, Guenee, n. s. 



H. leucophaarice paulo minor. Alee griseoe^ nigro-atomosoe ; lineia 

 incequalihus nigris : anticce duabus mediis infra confluentibus : posticcB 

 tribus sub-parallelis. Antennce ciliis longis, disiantibus. Foemince alee 

 valde reductce, securiformes^ pilosce. 



It has some analogy with our leucophcearia, but the wings are festooned, the 

 inferior almost toothed. All the wings are powdery-grey, and more or less sprinkled 

 with black atoms. Supei-ior with four black lines, the two median of which are 

 ii'regular, and converge inferiorily somewhat as in our Boarmia rhomhoidaria. In* 

 ferior with only three lines, the median finer but more interrupted, than the others : 

 under-side somewhat paler, with the markings eflfaced. Body concolorous. An- 

 tennae furnished with long, but slender and distinct, pectinations. 



In some varieties the lines are partly suppressed, and lost in the atoms of the 

 ground colour. 



The ^ has the wings greatly abbreviated, elongated and narrow, dilated sud- 

 denly at the apex, and furnished with bristly hairs on the margins. The black 

 lines can be distinguished very plainly ; three in number on the superior, and two 

 on the inferior. Abdomen terminating in a long and strong oviduct ; with a double 

 row of black spots. 



Family xx. LAEENTIDJE. 

 Genus Laeentia. 

 Laeentia COE0T3LAEIA, Gueuee, n. s. 

 Statura vix L. salicatce^ cui affinis. Alee integrcBy cinerecB^ sub-nitentes ; 

 Uneolis dentatis sub-interruptis griseis, mediis duabus saturatioribus, punc- 

 tulis venalibus albis : posticce supra lineis indistinctis, subtus albidce, lineia 

 interruptis. Palpi porrecti, longitudine capiti cequales. Antennce pectinatce. 



It has some relationship with our salicata, of which it has scarcely the size, but 

 almost the colour. One sees in it almost the same lines, which are equally denti- 

 culated and badly marked ; the two median are better marked, or rather it should 

 be said that the space they limit tends to become darker in their vicinity ; small, 

 very fine white dots follow the elbow line, and others indicate the subterminal ; the 

 fringe is lightly sinuated with blackish : inferior wings slightly paler, with the lines 

 little distinct ; beneath they are whitish-gi-ey, with the same punctiform lines. 

 Palpi forming a sort of beak almost as long as the head. Antennee famished with 

 long and very fine pectinations. 



The ? resembles the <J , but the amenues are filiform. 



