(Plate [VI]., fig. 48.)
This odd little species was discovered by Professor Hutton at Dunedin.
The expansion of the wings is ⅝ inch. The fore-wings are rich brown with two transverse bands of darker brown; the first near the base, rather narrow; the second near the middle, considerably broader, especially on the costa. The hind-wings are bright orange. The termen of the fore-wings is slightly excavated below the apex, and considerably bowed a little below the middle.
Described and figured from a specimen in Mr. Fereday's collection.
Genus 7.—EUCHŒCA, Hb.
"Face smooth, flat. Antennæ in ♂ shortly ciliated. Palpi short, slender, loosely scaled. Fore-wings with areole simple. Hind-wings with vein 8 anastomosing with cell to beyond middle.
"A small genus containing a few species distributed throughout the northern hemisphere and one Australian."—(Meyrick.)
We have one species.
EUCHŒCA RUBROPUNCTARIA, Dbld.
(Ptychopoda rubropunctaria, Dbld., Dieff. N. Z. li. 287. Asthena visata, Gn. ix. 438. Asthena, Gn., E. M. M. v. 42. Asthena pulchraria, Butl., Cat. pl. iii. 18. Hippolyte rubropunctaria, Meyr., Trans. N. Z. Inst. xvi. 60. Epicyme rubropunctaria, Meyr., ib. xviii. 184.)