Meyrick. — 0?i Neio Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 157 



fuscous ; tips of cilia shortly below apex sometimes pale red- 

 dish-ochreous. 



Otira Eiver (3,000ft.), amongst forest, in January; four 

 specimens. A distinct species, perhaps nearest P. zatrophana. 



GL YPHIPTEE YGID^ . 



Heliostibes, Z. 



5. Hel. electric a, n. sp. 



$ . 16-17mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark 

 fuscous, slightly sprinkled with yellowish. Antennas and legs 

 dark fuscous,- posterior tibia? yellow-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous, strewn with ochreous- 

 yellow hair-scales in irregular patches ; a leaden-metallic line 

 from -J of costa to f of inner margin, angulated outwards in 

 middle ; a sinuate leaden-metallic line from above middle of 

 disc to anal angle ; a leaden-metallic line from middle of costa 

 obliquely outwards more than half across wing, thence curved 

 round to touch a whitish dot on costa at f , and continued in 

 a strong curve near and parallel to costa and hindmargins to 

 anal angle ; space between first and second lines, and within 

 first curve of third line, less strewn wath yellow scales and 

 therefore darker than rest of wing : cilia light grey, rather 

 shining. Hindwings rather dark fuscous, somewhat bronzy ; 

 cilia light shining grey. 



Mount Arthur (4, 700ft .) , in January ; two specimens. Very 

 distinct. 



PLUTELLID^E. 



EUTORNA, n. g. 



Head smooth, sidetufts projecting over forehead ; ocelli 

 absent ; tongue well-developed. Antennae 4, in male serrate, 

 shortly ciliated (j-J), basal joint moderately long, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint 

 thickened with dense appressed scales, terminal joint shorter 

 than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, 

 drooping. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. Fore- 

 wings with vein 1 furcate, 2 from very near angle, 6 to apex, 

 7 and 8 stalked, 11 from before middle. Hindwings almost 

 or quite as broad as forewings, elongate-ovate or broadly lan- 

 ceolate, cilia 1-^ ; all veins separate, 5 bent. 



Approaches most nearly to Compsistis, from wiiichit differs 

 mainly in the antennae not being as long as forewings, and in 

 veins 3 and 4 of the hindwings being separate. Besides the 

 two following species I have several Australian, which are 

 closely allied to them : — 



Ground-colour of forewings ferruginous-brown .. caryochroa. 

 mm, ochreous . . . . symmoiyJia. 



