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I September, 



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

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



BY ACHILLE GUENEE. 

 (Concluded from page 65). 



Genus Camptogea:m:ma. 



Camptogeamma fuscinata, Guenee, n. s. 



Statura hahitusque C. strangulatcB. AJcBanticce lilacino-hrunnece ; mar- 

 ffine, Uneaque media angulata intus diluta, hrunneis ; puncto cellulari : 

 posticce diliif lores, immaculatce : suif fis paleacecs, atomis lineolisque duahus 

 hrunneis. Aiitennce ma^ns vix puhescentes. 



Size and aspect of C strangulata, for a dark variety of wliicli, at first sight, it 

 might be mistaken. Superior wings marked in a precisely similar manner, but 

 with the ground colour pale lilac-brown, which, from the median line to the base, 

 becomes wood-brown. Inferior wings much paler, without lines ; but beneath they 

 are ochrcous-yellow, strongly sprinkled vrith ferruginous atoms, which, accumulating 

 between the cellule and the margin, form two short parallel lines. Antennae and 

 palpi as in C. strangulata, of which it is perhaps strictly only a modification. 



Camptogeamma stinakia, Guenee, n. s. 



Media. Alee omnes integrce, lutecs : anticce lincis duahus albis nigro- 

 limhatis : posticce supra immaculatce : suhfus rufce, lineis sex ferrugineis. 

 Antennoe pectinatce. 



Size and habit of C. insulata. Superior wings ochreous-yellow, suffused with 

 blackish ; the only markings are two distant lines, the first forming a single angle 

 in the cellule, the second simply wavy, these lines are slender, white, narrowly 

 bordered with black on the costa, where they approach nearer one to the other, and 

 followed by a brownish tinge ; extremity of the fringes finely marked with white ; 

 inferior wings ochreous-yellow, without markings above, but beneath they are pow- 

 dered with red, and traversed by six parallel lines, of which the four first are placed 

 close together and discoidal, the two others isolated and toothed. Body concolo- 

 rous, without markings. Antenna? of the male furnished with long pubescent and 

 spatulated pectinations. 



Geuus Dastueis, Guenee, nov. gen. 



AntennsB of the simple, granulated, scarcely pubescent. Palpi 

 moderately long, connivent in form of a beak, hairy, tlie joints distinct. 

 Haustellum robust. Body thick, velvety. Thorax robust, broad, hairy ; 

 abdomen scaly, banded, laterally velvety, truncated at the apex. Legs 

 long, scaly, spurs robust ; tarsi spiny. Wings stout, entire, with long 

 fringes, the markings similar on both pairs, colours bright, even on the 

 under-side. 



