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L. philpotti Prout ( beata Meyr ., nec Bull.) (26 h) was long confounded with beata but was carefully philpotti. 
differentiated by the late Mr. A. Philpott and is really quite easy to distinguish. Cell-mark wanting, hindwing 
tinged with vinaceous, at least distally and on the base of the fringe, discocellulars much less angulated than 
in beata. It occurs in some localities with beata (e. g. the Tararua Mountains and Invercargill), but is perhaps 
most prevalent in the Lake Wakatipu district. 
L. limonodes Meyr. (26 h). Different from all the preceding Larentia in shape, the distal margins being limonodes. 
somewhat sinuous; this, and frequently a dark terminal patch behind a pale apical one on the forewing, give 
a somewhat Asaphodes- like appearance to it. Moderately variable, the dark lines of the forewing generally 
strongest anteriorly, the white lines more or less punctiform. Distributed in New Zealand, but not common. 
L. prasinias Meyr. (26 h) is easily recognized bv its bright ochre-yellow colouring and the strongly prasinias. 
spotted fringes. According to Hudson, who gives as its distribution Mount Egmont and from Mount Arthur 
to Invercargill, it is usually found in beech forests or subalpine scrub at elevations of about 3000 feet and is 
particularly attached to Coprosma parviflora; but in the extreme south it becomes a lowland insect. 
L. farinata Warr. (26 c). A simple grey species, the markings weak, least so at the costal margin of the farinata. 
forewing. The <$ antennal pectinations are rather long, widely spaced and numbering little over 20 in each 
series. Wellington, taken in the Botanical Gardens. I do not know whether its native habitat has vet been 
discovered. 
L. cinerearia Dbld. ( — invexata Walk., inoperata Walk., diffusaria Walk., infusata Walk., adonata cinerearia. 
Feld.) (26 i). Much smaller, of a paler grey and with a tinge of brown; the markings stronger, with the central 
projections of the postmedian sharper. About as many antennal joints are pectinated. Common and very 
generally distributed in New Zealand. 
L. eupitheciaria Guen. (26 i). Whiter than cinerearia, the markings weak except at the costal margin, eupithecia- 
where they are greatly strengthened. On an average larger, sometimes quite as large as farinata, but very 
different in aspect. Local, in forest land at 2500 to 4000 feet altitude. Possibly a mountain form of cinerearia. 
L. orophyla Meyr. (26 i). Easily distinguished from semifissata by its greyish colour and the straight orophyla. 
antemedian line. To students of the Palaearctic fauna it often slightly recalls Xanthorhoe munitata islandicaria, 
though with straighter antemedian. The largest and most similarly coloured examples of X. rosearia, with which 
Meyrick compared it, have also a curved antemedian, besides longer pectinations and different hindwing 
venation. Distributed in the mountains of southern New Zealand, in open country, from 2500 to 4000 feet. 
L. semifissata Walk. (G = ypsilonaria Guen., $ delicatulata Guen.) (26 i). Somewhat variable in colour, semifissata. 
especially the $, but constant in its pronounced sexual dimorphism. In the the median band is not broader 
than in orophyla , perhaps on an average not so broad, the areas on either side of it weakly marked; the $ is 
broader-banded, darker, with strong lines and shades in proximal and distal areas. Both sexes have the median 
vein and 3rd radial pale on the central band, also (at least in the $) the 1st median. New Zealand. Widely 
distributed and common, in open forest districts. 
L. lophogramma Meyr. (26 i) differs from semifissata in the duller and darker <$, with more indented lophogram- 
distal edge of the median band and without the black dots on the veins, the hindwing deep oclireous, without 
markings; $ less sharply marked than that of semifissata and lacking the pale veins, while the hindwing is 
without the transverse lines. Castle Hill. Christchurch-West. 
L. chlamydota Meyr. (26 i). Very distinct in the wing-form and the shape of the broad, richly coloured chlamydota. 
median band. Hindwing always orange-yellow, but usually clouded over with grey excepting a postmedian 
band. Both wings beneath are rather dark but variegated and have a striking series of white subterminal spots. 
Distributed in New Zealand from Christchurch to Invercargill; also Tokaanu, Waiouru & Wellington, North 
Island. 
L. bulbulata Guen. (26 i). A rather small species, known at once by its clear orange hindwing, with tmlbulata. 
narrow dark border or dark terminal line. Both wings beneath predominantly orange, though less vivid. Dis¬ 
tributed in South Island, New Zealand, from sea level to 2000 or 3000 feet. 
L. petrodes Turn. This was at first regarded as a variety of the following and merely differentiated petrodes. 
as having the “forewing grey rather than blackish, with pale ochreous-brown suffusion near base and in parts 
of disc". Later (Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. 29, p. 70) Turner stated that it was “a very distinct species” 
and that “in addition to the differences in the forewing the hindwing is free from marking except close to dorsum 
[hindmargin] and termen, and in the 3 there is a subcostal spot of modified ochreous scales on upper surface, 
to which there is nothing similar in L. dascia’’. Queensland: Warwick (loc. typ.) and Victoria: Gisborne. 
