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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M N E W ZEALAND. 387 This species certainly belongs to the genus Xylophasia. Xylina provida and X. canescens of Walker are synonyms. AMPHIPYRID^E. 37- BlTYLA ATRISTRIGA. Xylina atristriga, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 756 (1865). 2 • Coll. Dr. Hector. <$. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 38. BlTYLA DEFIGURATA. Xylina defigurata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 756 (1865). Bityla thoracica, Walker, I. c. p. 869 (1865). Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 39. BITYLA SERICEA, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 12.) Primaries shining greyish brown, crossed by two widely separated and slightly diverging dusky lines, the inner one in the shape of a I, the outer one composed of small lunules with whitish exterior margins; outer margin undulated, fringe silky whitish ; secondaries pale brown, fringe sandy whitish ; thorax greyish brown, collar slightly darker; abdomen ? : primaries below pale grey, costa and fringe whitish ; secondaries whitish, with a submarginal indistinct grey band, and the outer border of the same tint, fringe whitish; pectus sandy yellowish, dusky in front; legs sandy yellowish, banded with black. Expanse of wings I inch 6 lines. South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. One imperfect example. It is allied to B. defigurata. HELIOTHIDAE. 40. HELIOTHIS CONFERTA. Heliothis conferta, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 690. n. 21 (1857). Coll. Dr. Hector. EUCLIDIID^. 41. EUCLIDIA HECTORI, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 4.) Primaries very like those of the New-Zealand Fidoniee, shining grey, irrorated with white, with a central irregular broad band, edged on each side with dark brown ; a broad brown outer border, through the centre of which runs a pale lunulated line; costa crossed by oblique brown dashes ; fringe brown, spotted externally with white; secondaries with the basal two thirds whity-brown, crossed by three nearly straight parallel brown bands; apical third brown, crossed by a slender irregularly undulated whity-brown line; fringe brown, tipped with white ; body grey: wings below sordid white, with a broad black outer border, crossed by a sinuous macular white streak ; primaries with a transverse dash near the base, and three bands (the outermost elbowed) across the central area, black ; secondaries greyish at base, crossed by four parallel black bands; body below sandy whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. High-mountain form. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. Found at between 4000 and 5000 feet. Very difficult to catch. 25* |