30 • Transactions. 



Aet. VII. — Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera. 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 

 Communicated by C Y. Hudson, F.E.S., F.N. Z.Inst. 



[Read before the Wellinyton Philosophical Society, 3rd December, 1919 ; received by Editor, 

 31st December, 1919 ; issued separately, 4th June, 1920.] 



I AM again indebted to the kindness of my esteemed: correspondent 

 Mt. G. V. Hudson for the material on which the following descriptions 

 are based. 



. Crambidae. 

 Orocrambus ventosus n. sp. 



$. 26-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish, mixed with brown 

 hairs. Abdomen dark fuscous irrorated with pale greyish-ochreous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen slightly rounded, little oblique ; dark fuscous, suffusedly mixed 

 with brown, especially on posterior half, somewhat lighter on post-median 

 area, veins on posterior half more or less obscurely indicated with whitish 

 scales ; a very obscurely indicated angulated darker trai\sverse line towards 

 termen : cilia grey, tips white, with a tendency to obscure whitish bars on 

 veins. Hindwings grey, becoming dark grey towards termen : cilia ochreous- 

 grey-whitish, with grey basal line. 



Mount Arthur, 4,200 ft., in January (Hudson) ; two specimens. 



Pyraustidae. 

 Scoparia ciserodes n. sp. 



o. 17 mm. Head grey sufltusedly mixed with white. Labial palpi 2, 

 dark grey, base whitish, apical edge mixed with whitish. Maxillary palpi 

 white, basal half dark fuscous. Thorax grey irrorated with white, a streak 

 of blackish irro ration on each side of back. Abdomen grey- whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow at base, posteriorly dilated, costa anteriorly straight, 

 posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique : 

 light grey irrorated with white, with some scattered blackish scales ; a 

 short fine blackish median longitudinal line rising from a small white spot 

 at base ; lines indistinct, whitish, first slightly curved, direct (rubbed), 

 second obtusely angulated in middle ; small cloudy dark-grey spots on 

 costa beyond middle and at | ; orbicular and claviform indicated by some 

 scattered blackish scales, discal spot represented by a slight 3-armed 

 blackish mark, posterior arm edged beneath with pale ochreous ; two or 

 three dashes of blackish irroration towards upper part of termen : cilia 

 whitish, with subbasal series of well-marked grey spots. Hindwings 1^, 

 grey-whitish : cilia whitish, with very faint greyish subbasal line. 



Porirua, Wellington, in January (Hudson) ; one specimen. An incon- 

 spicuous insect, yet quite distinct from anything else. 



^ . , _, Tortricidae. 



Tortnx sphenias Meyr. 



Mr. Hudson has pointed out to me that this species (originally referred 

 by me to Cnephasia), of which he has sent a second specimen from Dunedin, 

 is very close to fer,vida, and suggested that the two are identical. This 



