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Show 406 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW-ZEALAND LEPIDOPTERA. [May 1, and fringe white, the latter brownish at anal angle; body above dark brown, collar and prothorax varied with ochraceous; hind margins of tegulae fringed with whitish ; abdomen with whitish hind margins to the segments: primaries below bronzy-brown, pale towards the base, crossed towards apex by a series of ill-defined whitish dots, fringe greyish ; secondaries sordid white, shining, clouded (excepting at apex and outer border) with grey ; body below pearly whitish ; tibias and tarsi of legs above banded with black. Expanse of wings, cf 7 lines, 2 9 lines. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. A puzzling little species, with the general coloration of Atychia. 135. CRYPTOLECHIA CARNIFEX, n. sp. Primaries flesh-colour, costal margin blood red, the same colour also extending for a short distance down the fringe, which is throughout rather darker than the body of the wing; secondaries white, slightly tinted with flesh-colour at the borders; thorax flesh-coloured; palpi and femora and tibias of anterior legs carmine: wings below nearly as above, excepting that the secondaries show three or four apical marginal dark grey spots ; body below white. Expanse of wings 11 lines. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. C. carnifex is allied to Walker's Depressaria moderatella from Tasmania. 136. CRYPTOLECHIA RUFOSPARSA, n. sp. Primaries straw-yellow, clouded with flesh-colour and regularly dotted with indistinct reddish spots ; secondaries silvery white ; thorax straw yellow; abdomen pale testaceous (possibly white in fresh examples) : wings below silvery white ; primaries with the costa and fringe yellow ; anterior tibiae carmine; anterior femora flesh-colour; body below white. Expanse of wings 10 lines. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 137- CRYPTOLECHIA GALACTINA. Cryptolechia galactina, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxl. fig. 34. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. A pure white species. GRACILARIIDJE. 138. G R A C I L A R I A LINEARIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 16.) Primaries clay-brown, crossed by oblique series of blackish dots, in certain lights uniform lilacine brownish, shining; secondaries white, fringes at apex slightly tinted with testaceous : thorax coloured like the primaries, abdomen testaceous : wings below silvery whitish, primaries slightly brownish in tint : body below white. Expanse of wings 5 lines. Coll. Dr. Hector. Allied to G. arenosella. |