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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 389 48. SCOPARIA SUBMARGINALIS. Hypochalcia submarginalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xxvii. p. 48 (1863). Scoparia feredayi, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag. iv. p. 80 (1867). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 49. SCOPARIA RAKAIENSIS. Scoparia rakaiensis, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag. iv. p. 80 (1867). South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. The Scoparia ejuncida of Knaggs is Hypochalcia indistinct alis of Walker. GEOMETRIT ES. ENNOMID^E. 50. POLYGONIA FORTINATA. Polygonia fortinata, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 41 (1868). Caustolomal ziczac, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxxxii. 4. North and South Islands. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. The Selenia gallaria of Walker is a nearly allied species of the same genus. 51. GONODONTIS FELIX, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 10.) Primaries golden fawn-colour, sparsely irrorated with grey, crossed near the base by a zigzag line which runs inwards at the costa, and beyond the middle of the wing by a nearly straight oblique line, both purplish brown ; the outer line bordered externally by a slender line of pinky whitish; a black spot at the end of the cell; fringe orange, white-tipped ; secondaries pale pinky brownish ; the disk crossed by an irregular grey line ; a grey spot at the end of the cell; fringe orange, tipped with white ; head and thorax golden fawn-colour: wings below pale reddish clay-colour; outer border paler, with zigzag internal edge; a discal black-dotted transverse line, zigzag on the secondaries ; a black spot at the end of each discoidal cell; costa of primaries dotted alternately with ferruginous and white; pectus reddish clay-colour. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. Allied to G. nelsonaria of Felder. Dr. Staudinger possesses a smaller and less strongly marked example of the same species, probably its male ; in this specimen the pale external border is wanting on the under surface. " It varies much in depth of colour" (Enys). 52. SESTRA OBTRUNCATA. Cidarial obtruncata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxv. p. 1421 (1862). Teraspunctilineana, Walker, I. c. Suppl. v. p. 1780 (1866). Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. Judging from an example in Dr. Staudinger's possession, I suspect that this is only a variety of Sestra flexata, described by Walker as a Cidaria, but identical with his S.fusiplagiata. |