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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M N E W ZEALAND. 401 Museum collection from Auckland, and which Walker had confounded with Crambus vitellus of Doubleday. 112. CHILO LEUCANIALIS, n. sp. Primaries above silky testaceous, the internal area from the median vein downwards more or less suffused with pale bronze-brown, which is deepest immediately below the median vein; a longitudinal white streak above the median vein; the veins beyond the discoidal cell bronze-brown, their interspaces whitish ; secondaries silvery white, slightly testaceous towards outer margin ; body creamy white ; tegulae and upper surface of two anterior pairs of legs brown : primaries below testaceous ; secondaries white, with a faint yellowish tint; body below white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. South Island. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. The colouring is not unlike that of Leucania. 113. EROMENE AURISCRIPTELLA. Eromene auriscriptella, Walker, Lep. Het. xxx. p. 976 (1864). Crambus gracilis, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxxxvii. fig. 26. Coll. Dr. Hector. 114. EROMENE METALLIFERA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 11.) Allied to the preceding species, but differing as follows :- Primaries rather brighter in colour, the central transverse lines only half as wide apart; the silver discocellular spot less curved, and edged with brown ; a series of longitudinal discal silver lines between the veins; secondaries white instead of brown. Expanse of wings 8 lines. Coll. Dr. Hector. This is a very beautiful little species. 115. SAMANA ACUTATA, n. sp. Primaries pale straw yellow ; an oblique interno-basal litura, a dot at the end of the cell, and a discal transverse line terminating iu an acute < -shaped angle, piceous ; the discal line diffused externally ; a marginal series of black dots; secondaries white, with the fringe creamy ; a marginal series of black dots ; thorax pale straw yellow, abdomen white : primaries below pale testaceous, whitish on internal area; markings (excepting the marginal dots, which are united by a slender brown line) only visible through the wing; secondaries white, the costal area tinted with testaceous, and sparsely irrorated with brown ; a small black dot at the end of cell ; a marginal series of black dots; fringe creamy : body below pale straw yellow. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. Sea-level, South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. In my opinion, this genus would be better placed amongst the Pyrales. PROC. ZOOL. Soc.--1877, No. XXVI. 26 |