THE 
NEW SPECIES, &c., OF HETEROCEEOUS LEPIDOFTEBA FROM CANTER. 
BURY, NEW ZEALAND, COLLECTED BY MR. R. W. FEREDAY. 
by achille guenee. 
Family HEPIALID^.* 
Genus Pielus. 
PiELUs UMBEACULATUS, Guenee, n. s. 
Alee testacea : anticce litura longitudinali alhida, irregulari, nigro 
infra adumhrata : posticce omnesqxie suhtus testacece, hasi pilis latiorihus. 
Femina major et dilutior. 50 millimetres. 
The examples that I have seeu of this species present two well-marked types. 
In the first the anterior wings of the male are dense, testaceous, sprinkled with an 
infinitude of paler scales, and the only marking is an unequal whitish band placed 
in the cellule, commencing as a point and finishing as a dash, the whole broadly 
shaded with black beneath. The posterior wings are neariy of the same tint, but 
lees dense, with a brush of hairs, more yellow in colour, at the base. The body 
and the legs are concolo^us. The female is larger, and extends to 60 mill. All 
the wings are much paler^an in the male, and the anterior much less dense. 
The second type is uni^rmly pinkish-gi-ey, with fringes concolorous, and pre- 
ceded (on the superior wings) by isolated black points. Besides, one sees, at the 
apex of the band, a transverse series of intermediate black points or streaks. I do 
not know the female of this form. 
Pielus v^iolaeis, Gueuee, n. s. 
AloB modo castanecB, modo grisece vel 7iigricantes,Jlmbrns interseetis : 
anticcd guttis disco alhescente numerosis irregularihus sparsis, alhidis nigro 
cinctis, lineaque subterminali nigra margines non attingente : postica 
suhtus costa Jlavo-brunnea. 40 mill. 
I only know the male, which varies greatly. The anterior wings are ordinarily 
chestnut-brown, with the disc whitish ; but the brown often passes into blackish- 
grey ; the wings are sprinkled with little irregular whitish spots, outlined with 
black, and other yet smaller spots entirely black ; the largest are in the cellule, and 
* The British Museum Catalogues indicate many species proper to New Zealand, a country which 
appears to be very rich in Nocturni. 1 am able to recognize some of them, but tlw greater part of those 
sent to me seem new ; it may be that the locality where Mr. Fereday collects is different to those which 
Messrs. Bolton, Colenso, and Sinclair visited, or tliat I have not been able to recognize many of them, 
from the too often little precise descriptions by Mr. Walker.— A. O. 
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