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Show 402 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [MAY 1, 116. ADENA XANTHIALIS. Adena xanthialis, Walker, Lep. Het. xxvii. p. 168 (1863). Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. This genus certainly has no business among the Cr ambit es; it should be placed among the Hypenidee. TORTR ICITES. TORTRICID^E. 117. T E R A S J N E A , n. sp. Primaries with the central area brassy, gradually merging into cupreous towards the borders, which are silky brown; secondaries brown, subcostal area yellowish, costal area pale stramineous ; body above dark brown: wings below shining brassy yellow, the primaries becoming greyish brown at the borders, the secondaries becoming golden towards the outer margin ; body below creamy whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch. Mountain form. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. Found at 3000 to 4000 feet elevation. 118. TERAS FLAVESCENS, n. sp. Primaries straw-yellow, very indistinctly reticulated with deeper lines of the same colour; a spot at the extremity of the costal nervure, a second less distinct at the end of the second subcostal branch, and the apical half of the fringe, tawny; secondaries white, tinted with stramineous towards costa; thorax ochraceous ; abdomen (probably white) : primaries below whitish, with the basi-costal area and apex ochraceous, crossed by orange reticulations; apical fringe tawny; secondaries pale stramineous, reticulated with orange; pectus silvery white, legs ochraceous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. South Island. Coll. Dr. Hector. This species seems to m e to belong to the T. boscana group. Several genera are confounded by Walker under Teras ; his T. ob-longana and T. inaptana ate probably also variations of one species ; and I believe his T. servana, T. priscana, and T. contractana to be synonymous; but the specimens are in poor condition, which renders their accurate determination difficult. 119. CACOECIA VILIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 15.) Allied to C. herana of Felder. Primaries above shining sordid testaceous; subbasal area, base of inner margin, and external border silvery grey ; a V-shaped basi-subcostal marking, an oblique bracket-shaped line from the cell to the inner margin, and two or three dots near the outer margin black-brown; a semicircular costal brown patch, a diffused brownish patch bounded within by the bracket-shaped line; secondaries white, the apical and abdominal areas feebly tinted with testaceous; head white, thorax brown : primaries below reddish, markings indistinct; secondaries sordid white, reticu- |