Meyrick. — Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera. 133 



at | parallel to termen, sharply angulated outwards in middle and inwards 

 above this, marked with a series of short black dashes on veins, and followed 

 by a whitish shade becoming white on costa and edged posteriorly with a 

 series of small dark-fuscous marks ; two cloudy brownish sometimes con- 

 nected spots transversely placed on end of cell ; a terminal series of cloudy 

 dark-fuscous dots or marks : cilia light fuscous irroratecl with white. Hind- 

 wings light grey : cilia whitish-grey. 



Waitati (Clarke) ; two specimens. Superficially this suggests a Scoparia. 



Carposinidae. 

 Carposina sarcanthes n. sp. 



c?. 15 mm. Head white, with a few grey specks. Palpi whitish 

 sprinkled with grey, basal half dark fuscous. Thorax grey with a curved 

 white median bar, patagia white with some grey scales. Abdomen pale 

 pinkish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat 

 dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, oblique ; pale 

 grey, irregularly mixed with white and somewhat sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous ; a semi- oval blackish blotch on base of costa ; seven dots of blackish 

 irroration on costa between this and apex ; two small round grey spots 

 edged beneath with blackish and circled with white beneath costa towards 

 middle ; a blackish-mixed tuft edged posteriorly with white in disc at | 3 

 one beneath middle of disc, and two on end of cell, discal area between 

 these blackish - sprinkled and without whitish scales ; an irregular sub- 

 terminal series of blackish dots edged posteriorly with white : cilia pale 

 grev irrorated with white. Hindwings whitish-grey, basal half suffused 

 with pale pinkish-ochreous : cilia grey- whitish. 



Wellington (Hudson) ; one specimen. Specially characterized by the 

 pale pinkish-ochreous basal half of hindwings. 



Gelechiadae. 

 Epithectis Meyr. 

 Basal joint of antennae without pecten. Labial palpi with second joint 

 slightlv rough beneath, terminal joint nearly as long as second. Forewings 

 with 7 and 8 out of 6. Hindwings nearly 1, trapezoidal, apex pointed, 

 produced, termen sinuate ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



A widelv distributed genus, not previously known from New Zealand. 



Epithectis zophochalca n. sp. 



c?. 9 mm. Head shining bronzy - metallic. Palpi whitish - bronzy, 

 second joint hardly rough beneath, anterior edge of terminal joint dark 

 fuscous. Thorax purplish-bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings lanceolate ; glossy rather dark bronzy-fuscous ; stigmata blackish, 

 plical obliquely before first discal ; small cloudy whitish spots on costa 

 before § and on tornus slightly anterior to this, on one wing connected 

 by a faint straight whitish shade : cilia fuscous, round apex with a dark- 

 fuscous antemedian line. Hindwings with apex considerably produced ; 

 dark fuscous ; a fine longitudinal hyaline line in disc : cilia fuscous. 



Auckland, in January (Hudson) ; one specimen. 



Oecophoridae. 

 Borkhausenia thranias Meyr. 



Two examples sent, taken at the Dun Mountain, Nelson, in January 

 (Hudson) ; one of these is quite like the unique type specimen from 



