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Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 

 vein 1 furcate, 2 from f of cell, 4 and 5 approximated at base, 

 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 

 somewhat narrower than forewings, elongate, long-pointed, 

 tolerably acute, cilia 2 ; with an ill-defined hyaline patch to- 

 wards base ; veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 absent, 6 and 7 parallel. 

 Only the one species is known. Stainton and Wocke both 

 state the ocelli to be absent ; they are, however, distinct, but 

 placed close beneath the root of the antennas, and therefore 

 easy to be overlooked. A more singular and unaccountable 

 error is that both these writers describe the antennae as not 

 ciliated, whereas the ciliations are unusually long for this 

 group. 



9. Enclr. lacteella, Schiff. 



[Gclechia stibditclla, Walk., Go7 ; (?) G. adapertclla^ ib., 653.) 



(? 2 • 13-18mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, 

 terminal joint with base and a subapical band black. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, pointed ; pale greyish-ochreous, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous and a few white scales ; a white 

 basal dot ; a basal patch enclosing this, a patch along costa 

 towards middle, a small cloud on middle of inner margin, one 

 at anal angle, and another at apex fuscous ; a black dot beneath 

 costa at J, a second, longitudinally elongate, rather obliquely 

 beyond it on fold, a third beneath middle of costa, and a 

 fourth in disc at | : cilia pale whitish-ochreous, basal half 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia 

 pale whitish-ochreous. 



Whangarei, Napier, Taranaki, Palmerston, "Wellington, 

 Christchurch, Bealey Eiver, and Invercargill, probably there- 

 fore universally distributed ; in houses, from October to March. 

 Accidentally introduced from Europe, and common in x\ustralia 

 also ; the larva feeds on seeds, dried foods, &c. Walker's type 

 of Gclechia adapcrtclla is much damaged, and its identification 

 not quite certain. 



BuTALis, Tr. 



Head smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue well-developed. An- 

 tennae 4, in male filiform, shortly ciliated (|— 1), basal joint 

 moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, 

 curved, ascending, with appressed scales, terminal joint 

 shorter than second, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short, 

 slender, drooping. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs 

 above. Forewings with vein 1 simple or rarely shortly fur- 

 cate, 2 from angle of cell, 3 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 

 hiudmargin, 11 from about middle. Hindwings i to almost 1, . 

 lanceolate, cilia 1-4 ; veins all separate, and tolerably pa- 

 rallel. 



A genus of considerable extent ; it is cosmopolitan, but 



