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Show 388 MR. A. G. BUTLER O N HETEROCEROUS [MAY 1, PYRALITES. HYPENID^E. 42. RHAPSA SCOTOSIALIS. Rhapsa scotosialis, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iv. p. 1150 (1865). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. HERMINIID^E. 43. H E R M I N I A LILACINA, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 11.) Primaries olive-brown, shot with lilac and irrorated with black, a minute annular marking at the base ; a transverse discal series of dots, and a submarginal undulated line, black; a rounded orange black-edged spot in the centre of the cell; the spot on the discocellulars (" reniform " of Guenee) B-shaped, orange, black-edged ; secondaries sandy whitish; external area and a well-defined transverse discal line dusky ; margins of all the wings with a slender brown line dotted with black, the fringe grey, with a basal yellow line ; body corresponding in colour with the wings : primaries below grey, the costal and external areas pale testaceous; secondaries whitish testaceous, irrorated with brown ; all the wings with a discal transverse streak, and a submarginal series of spots brown ; fringe as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. South Island. Coll. Dr. Hector. 44. DARABA PARONALIS. Scopulal paronalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xviii. p. 797 (1859). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 45. SCOPULA FLAVIDALIS. Margaritia flavidalis, Doubleday, Dieff. N. Zeal. App. p. 288 (1843). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. S. quadralis and S. dipsasalis appear to be varieties of this species, they agree with it in marking. Botys otayalis of Felder seems to be an allied but distinct species. 46. MECYNA ORNITHOPTERALIS. Mecyna ornithopteralis, Guenee, Sp. Gen. Lep., Delt. et Pyral. p. 411 (1854). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. A very variable species ; the Botys maorialis of Felder may be a form of it; it is certainly congeneric. SCOPARIID^E. 47. SCOPARIA DIPTHERALIS. Scoparia diptheralis,Wa\ker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iv. p. 1503(1865). South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. |