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Whangarei (which lias cilia of forewings yellow), but the other has the cilia 

 of forewings light grey, giving a quite distinct aspect; as they were taken 

 together, and are alike in all other respects, they are doubtless the same 

 species, but it is an unusual form of variation. 



Trachypepla photinella Meyr. 



■ An example in good condition sent by Mr. Hudson shows a well-marked 

 scale-tuft above dorsum of forewings at \ (rubbed in all examples previously 

 seen), and therefore the species is referable to Trachypepla, and not to 

 Eulechria as hitherto supposed. 



TlNEIDAE. 



Endophthora pallacopis n. sp. 



<J. 12 mm. Head white. Palpi white, externally dark fuscous. 

 Thorax pinky-whitish sprinkled with fuscous (partly defaced). Abdomen 

 light grey. Forewings narrowly elongate lanceolate : 7 and 8 stalked ; 

 pinky-whitish, with scattered light olive-brown scales ; a slender blackish 

 streak along costa from base to near |, edged beneath by a light olive- 

 brownish streak : a black basal dot in middle, and one on lower edge of this 

 streak towards apex : some scattered black scales along dorsum ; a blackish 

 mark on costa before middle, edged beneath by a light olive-brown spot 

 connected anteriorly with a similar spot beneath it in disc by a transverse- 

 linear black dot ; a blackish mark on costa at §, with a light olive-brownish 

 spot adjoining it beneath : an irregular light olive-brownish spot on tornus, 

 and one resting on termen below middle ; some black irroration along 

 termen ; two irregular blackish dots on costa near apex : cilia whitish, 

 basal half suffused with light grey and slightly sprinkled with blackish. 

 Hindwings light grey : cilia whitish-grey. 



Wellington, in December (Hudson) ; one specimen. 



MlCKOPTERYC; I DA E . 



Sabatinca eodora n. sp. 



<$ $. 10 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fulvous. Antennae ochreous, 

 with a black band of three joints above middle and another of three or 

 four joints beneath apex. Abdomen blackish-grey. Forewings suboblong, 

 costa rather abruptly arched anteriorly, then nearly straight, slightly arched 

 towards apex, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly oblique ; 

 light rosy-pink, more or less sprinkled or suffused with grey except on basal 

 third; basal third orange - fulvous, including a bright - yellow transverse 

 blotch edged with a few black scales from costa at j ; a yellow dot edged 

 with black on dorsum before middle ; a somewhat oblique bright-yellow 

 fasciate blotch from middle of costa reaching half across wing, edged with a 

 few black scales and margined with orange-fulvous continued as an orange- 

 fulvous fascia to dorsum beyond middle, its anterior margin marked with 

 a yellow black-edged dot below middle and a black mark on dorsum ; an 

 irregular narrow orange-fulvous fascia from f of costa to tornus, partially 

 edged with black scales, and marked with two or three small variable yellow 

 dots ; two small yellow anteriorly black-edged spots on costa towards 

 apex and two on termen : cilia yellow barred with grey, base tinged with 

 rosy. Hindwings deep purple, becoming dark grey anteriorly : cilia dark 

 grey, on costa with two indistinct pale-yellowish bars. 



Shedwood Forest, Tapawera, near Nelson, in January (Hudson); four 

 specimens. A very elegant and distinct species. 



