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Art. XXIII.—Descriptions of Two New Species of Lepidoptera.
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th September, 1896.]
The two insects here described appear, on the evidence available, to be each eminently distinct from the previously known forms of their respective groups. For the purpose of facilitating identification, those words which are descriptive of the specially distinctive characters of each species are printed in italics.
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Charadrinina.
CharadrinidÆ.
Orthosia margarita, n. sp.
Male, female. 33mm.—36mm. Head, palpi, antennæ, and thorax fuscous, considerably darker in ♀. Abdomen grey. Legs fuscous mixed with pale-ochreous, tarsi dark-fuscous with apices of joints pale-ochreous. Fore-wings: Costa very slightly arched, apex rather obtuse; termen hardly waved; tornus obliquely rounded; in ♂ fuscous, considerably darker in ♀ a black spot just before first line below middle; orbicular stigma oval, oblique, light-brown, margined first with ochreous then with black; claviform stigma black, scarcely traceable in ♀ reniform stigma large, outlined with black and partially with dull-white; a costal series of small black spots; in ♂ a cloudy dark-fuscous costal shade just beyond second, line; subterminal line with long acute internal black dentations; a terminal series of small black spots; cilia fuscous, darker in ♀. Hind-wings: Pearly-white, semi-transparent; a narrow fuscous terminal band; costal and dorsal regions lightly suffused with fuscous; veins fuscous; cilia white, with a faint smoky-grey line, suffused at apex with fuscous.
Wellington, in April; two specimens.
Notodontina.
HydriomenidÆ.
Asaphodes siris, n. sp.
Female. 21mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale brownish-ochreous. Fore-wings: Termen strongly sinuate; brownish-ochreous mixed with white; basal patch and median band edged with dark-brown; posterior edge of median band with a strong broad median projection; a small dark-brown discal spot; subterminal line obscure; cilia brownish-ochreous. Hind-wings: Pale-ochreous with a grey median transverse line; basal half lightly suffused with greyish; cilia pale brownish-ochreous.
Wellington, in March; one specimen.