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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M N E W ZEALAND. 399 hooked black streak; a whitish ill-defined streak through the end of the cell, upon which there is a minute black discocellular dot; secondaries pale whity-brown, slightly darker at the apex ; body coloured like the opposite wings, anal tuft yellow : wings below shining pale whity-brown, sandy yellowish on the costal areas ; body below whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. South Island. Coll. Dr. Hector. Were it not for the black and white longitudinal streaks below the discoidal cell of primaries, this species would not be at all unlike the European form. It is common in grass. PHYCID^E. 103. H Y P O C H A L C I A CORRUPTA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 9.) Pale brown ; primaries with the costal half irrorated with whitish ; base, centre of disk, and two terminal patches (the smaller one nearest to apex) bronzy, speckled with black ; fringe of all the wings pale grey, very long; thorax brown, abdomen paler brown : wings below whity-brown, the primaries rather darker than the secondaries; fringe silky-whitish; body below whitish. Expanse of wings 9 lines. South Island. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. Common in grass. 104. GADIRA ACERELLA. Gadira acerella, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1742 (1866). Botys mahanga, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxxxvii. fig. 27. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. Not common. CRAMBIDiE. 105. CRAMBUS FLEXUOSELLUS. Crambus flexuosellus, Doubleday, Dieff. N. Zeal. App. p. 289 (1843); Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxxxvii. fig. 32. Coll. Dr. Hector. The commonest Crambus in New Zealand. 106. CRAMBUS VAPIDUS, n. sp. Primaries above testaceous, with a longitudinal whitish streak tapering to both ends, from the base through the discoidal cell to the outer margin, bounded towards the base below and in the centre above by blackish lines ; apical margin whitish: four black dots terminating the nervures at the centre of outer margin; fringe shining whitish; secondaries shining whitish; head and thorax white palpi externally, and tegulse, pale pinky brown; abdomen testaceous : wings below paler than above ; primaries without markings ; body below whitish. Expanse of wings 11 lines. South Island. Coll. Dr. Hector. |