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posterior half of wing suffused with golden-fuscous, crossed 

 posteriorly by two slender angulated leaden -blue-metallic 

 fasciae, margined by series of white dots ; hindmargin dotted 

 with blackish and white : cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. Hind- 

 wungs whitish-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



Mount Arthur (4,000ft.), in January; oue specimen. 



ARGYEESTHIADiE. 



Head more or less rough on crown, face smooth. Antennae 

 in male simple. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Forewings usually 

 with a rough space on costa between veins 11 and 12. 



The family is fairly well represented in Australia.. I have 

 only five New Zealand species, of which perhaps three are 

 scarcely indigenous, but of Australian or exotic origin. 



1. Forewings with vein 5 absent . . .. .. 3. 



„ „ present . . . . 2. 



2. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked . . . . Circostola. 



separate . . . . Hofmannia. 



3. Forewings with vein 10 absent . . . . Caferistis. 



„ present . . . . Bedellia. 



Hofmannia, Wk. 



Head rough on crown, face smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue 

 developed. Antennae f , in male simple, subserrate, basal joint 

 moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, slightly 

 curved, drooping, filiform, somewhat loosely scaled beneath, 

 terminal joint shorter than second, sometimes more loosely 

 scaled, tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior 

 tibia3 smooth-fccaled. Forewings with vein 1 furcate, 2 from 

 near angle of cell, 7 to hindmargin, 9 and 10 sometimes from 

 a point, 11 from about middle. Hindwings 1, lanceolate, 

 cilia 2 ; vein 4 absent, 5 and 6 rather approximated, 6 to 

 hindmargin. 



A small genus, occurring in Europe and Australia. 



12. Hofm. syhenota, n. sp. 

 (J. lomm. Head and antennce light ochreous-grey. Palpi 

 grey. Thorax light ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. 

 Legs fuscous, posterior pair ochreous- whitish. Forewings very 

 elongate, very narrow^ parallel-sided, long-pointed, acute ; 

 pale ochreous, thinly and irregularly sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous and whitish ; basal half of costa dotted with black ; 

 a moderately-broad ill-defined cloudy-white streak along 

 inner margin from base to anal angle, pointed at extremities, 

 interrupted at f by a small spot of ground-colour ; a cloudy 

 inwardly-oblique dark fuscous mark at ^ from near costa to 

 near inner margin: cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, round apex 

 ochreous, with base white, a grey line, and three cloudy dark 

 grey bars. Hindwings pale whitish-grey; cilia ochreous- 

 grey-whitish. 



