XANTHORHOE. By L. B. Prout. 
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X. cataphracta Meyr. (24 i). A large and quite Ortholitha- like species, the median band of the forewing cataphracta. 
broadly broken into two, the rather strong distal bands cut by a conspicuous oblique apical mark. Palpus rather 
short. The original description, made from $$ (which are generally smaller than the <$<$), seems to cover both 
this and the following species, but the first mentioned locality (Arthur’s Pass) should point to the present species 
as type, and the name has been restricted in this sense. Occurs also in the south. 
X. declarata Prout (24 1). A link between cataphracta and clarata, having more nearly the colouring declarata. 
of the former, the markings of the latter. Lake Wakatipu district: Ben Lomond and Queenstown ; also recorded 
from the Takitimu Mountains. 
X. clarata Walk. (24 1). Easily distinguished by the ochreous or yellow tone, which is very pronounced darata. 
on the almost unicolorous hindwing above and on parts of the forewing beneath. Palpus longer than in the 
two preceding, at least twice the diameter of the eye. Widely distributed in New Zealand, up to 4700 feet. 
Specimens from high altitudes are said to be larger and of a lighter colour. 
X. ciiroena Clarke (24 1) is “evidently allied to clarata” but immediately recognizable by its deep orange citroena. 
colouring. 32—36 mm, $ 28—30 mm. Forewing suffused with deep orange; 2 or 3 whitish arched fasciae 
near base, 2 median, attenuated or more or less interrupted in middle, partly bordered with brownish; beyond 
middle a whitish fascia, waved, angulated about middle; a wavy subterminal; fringes barred with brownish. 
Hindwing deep orange, with lighter suffusion alternating with brownish. Several taken at the edge of the Franz 
Josef Glacier, Westland (N. Z.); evidently local, no links with clarata known. 
X. glaciata Huds. (24 1). Expanse almost 1% inch. Forewing with costa strongly arched near apex; gladata. 
bright yellowish ochreous, with blackish-brown and bluish-white markings, the basal patch being of the latter 
colour, a dark terminal patch similar to that of prymnaea-, centre of median area bluish-white, heavily dark- 
sprinkled. Hindwing pale brownish ochreous, with a broad suffused terminal band; a grey discal dot. Mount 
Moltke, S. Westland, 5600 feet. x4 “beautiful species”, conjecturally placed here. 
X. prymnaea Meyr. (24 1). Another very pretty species with the general colouring yellow, the median prymnaea. 
band of the forewing broad, containing a clear white area; the terminal clouding behind the apex is obliquely 
bounded anteriorly, reminiscent of the Lygris-Eustroma group of the Palaearctic Region. Mount Arthur Table¬ 
land, New Zealand, 3600—4200 feet. 
X. cymozeucta Meyr. (= obarata Meyr., nec Feld.) (24 1). This and the following have been confused, cymozeuda. 
The species, with the Highly sinuate and crenulate distal margins and with the less bright colouring, 
which Meyrick determined as obarata, is not that of Felder according to the type, but is conspecific Avith 
the form from Ohakune, of which Meyrick's later description (1913), though not very perfect, is quite good 
enough: he himself and Hudson, Howes and Philpott are in agreement as to its belonging here. I have a 
good series from Temuka and Meyrick's first revision (accompanied by an excellent description of the present 
species as “obarata”) gives “Wellington, Christchurch and at the foot of Mount Hutt; a plain-frequently species 
especially attached to gorse-hedges”. Hudson gives a wide distribution but indicates that it has become scarcer 
of recent years. 
X. obarata Feld. (= chorica Meyr.) (25 a). Shape less extreme, both wings above with some brighter obarata. 
brown suffusions, forewing with a dark terminal patch nearly as in prymnaea, underside with some bright red¬ 
dish distal shades. Meyrick, having (in 1884) misidentified Felder’s rather poor figure, separated off (in 1888) 
the wrong species as new, probably without consulting afresh the said figure. Very local, though found here 
and there from Ohakune to Invercargill. Felder's type Avas not localized; Meyrick’s came from Akaroa. 
X. bryopis Meyr. (25 b). Expanse 29—32 mm. The olive-greenish tinge in the yellow ground-colour bryopis. 
may probably be more vivid in freshly emerged specimens. Palpus moderate, heavily scaled. Antenna AA'itl i 
the pectinations of the outer series long, of the inner moderate. A very distinct species. Described on $<3 from 
Mount Arthur, 4500 feet. — cosmodora Meyr., 1 $ taken Avith bryopis, may be its $; 27 mm; much paler, basal cosmodora. 
and median areas edged with black and again with white, postmedian line with stronger prominences than in 
bryopis, white central band of median area interrupted in middle, hind wing better marked. 
X. nebulosa Philpott. Expanse 34 mm. Pectinations rather short. Forewing with costa strongly arched, nebulosa. 
sinuate in the middle, termen slightly sinuate; ochreous grey-whitish, distal margin broadly greyish-fuscous; 
lines broAAm, antemedian irregularly subdentate, curved, postmedian irregular, with slight triple projection in 
the middle. HindAving with median and broad terminal bands. Marlborough district, New' Zealand. Near 
subobscurata, but smaller and differently marked. 
