(Plate [VI]., fig. 20.)
This species was discovered by Mr. Philpott at West Plains, near Invercargill.
The expansion of the wings is ⅞ inch. The fore-wings are rather dull green; there is a reddish-brown patch near the base, followed by two, slightly oblique, reddish bands; the central band is very broad, green, traversed by numerous fine wavy lines; there is a broad reddish band on the termen. The hind-wings are slaty-grey, tinged with pink towards the termen and dorsum. The cilia of all the wings are pink barred with black.
Two other specimens kindly given to me by Mr. Philpott have the bands on the fore-wings more or less brown in place of red, but are otherwise identical.
This insect is evidently very closely allied to C. bilineolata, but its larger size, longer wings, and barred cilia will, I think, distinguish it from that species.
The perfect insect appears in November.
CHLOROCLYSTIS ARISTIAS, Meyr.
(Chloroclystis aristias, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1897, 385.)
(Plate [VI]., fig. 21 ♂, 22 ♀.)
This beautiful insect was discovered on the Mount Arthur Tableland in January, 1896, at an elevation of about 4,000 feet.