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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 395 cell, the other submarginal; a marginal series of minute black thorax pale brown ; head dark brown ; abdomen stramineous : underside stramineous; primaries with the discoidal cell, base, and a squamose apical patch brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. South Island. Coll. Dr. Hector. CACOPSODOS, n. gen. Agreeing in general appearance and in its hairy palpi with Psodos, but differing entirely in the structure of the antennse, the latter presenting to the naked eye the appearance of those of Coremia 2 > but having in reality only the inner margin pectinated, the outer margin being quite simple. Type C. niger. 79. CACOPSODOS NIGER, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4.) Greyish black, speckled with white scales ; primaries crossed by a broad dentated central black band ; below shining dark grey, with a continuous paler discal line; pectus black. Expanse of wings 11 lines. South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. This species is somewhat like Panagra explanata, disputata, and exsignata, but differs in its hairy palpi. 80. HELASTIA INVEXATA. Larentia invexata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1199 (1862). Cidaria adonata 1, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxxxi. fig. 31. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 81. HELASTIA INDICATARIA. Eupithecia indicatoria, Walker, Lep. Het. xxvi. p. 1708 (1862). Coll. Dr. Hector. 82. HELASTIA BILINEOLATA. Eupithecia bilineolata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1246 (1862). Eupithecia cidariarial, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 62 (1868). Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. Possibly an extreme form of the preceding species. The three here placed under Helastia differ from the males of Eupithecia in their prominently pectinated antennae ; the following also seems to agree with them in structure :- 83. HELASTIA MUSCOSATA. Eupithecia 1 muscosata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1246 (1862). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. I think it not improbable that the Coremia inamcenaria of Guene'e is this species; but the description is not sufficiently precise to enable me to determine it satisfactorily. Felder's figure of Cidaria aquosata may also be intended for this species. |