"Possibly when the male is known this may prove to be a Dasyuris.
"I took two specimens on the mountain-side above Arthur's Pass at 4,500 feet, in January."—(Meyrick.)
NOTOREAS SIMPLEX, n. sp.
(Plate [VIII]., fig. 26.)
A single specimen of this species was captured on Mount Arthur in the South Island.
The expansion of the wings is about 1⅛ inches. The fore-wings are bright ochreous; there are four broad black transverse bands near the base, edged with white, and separated from one another by yellow spaces of almost equal width; the outermost of these bands is situated a little more than half-way between the base and termen; the last two lines become obsolete before they reach the costa; there are no other markings, except a black shading on the termen near the tornus, which is traversed by an obscure jagged paler line; the cilia are white barred with black. The hind-wings are bright orange-yellow, without markings; the cilia are ochreous.
The perfect insect appears in January.
The type-specimen was taken on the mountain-side, at an elevation of about 4,000 feet.
NOTOREAS FEROX, Butl.
(Fidonia ferox, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, 392, pl. xlii. 8. Pasithea ferox, Meyr., Trans. N. Z. Inst. xvi. 88. Notoreas ferox, ib. xviii. 184.)