114 Transactions. 



hairs, terminal joint dark fuscous except apex. Antennae greyish, basal 

 joint whitish marked with black. Thorax grey. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, ter- 

 men somewhat sinuate, extremely oblique ; 7 and 8 stalked ; rather dark 

 grey, tips of scales whitish ; two ochreous-brown longitudinal lines from 

 base through disc to beyond middle, where they coalesce with very oblique 

 brown streaks from middle of costa and dorsum ; an oblique brown mark 

 beneath fold at £ ; some scattered black scales on these markings, a black 

 dot on base of dorsum, a small blackish spot on dorsal streak near dorsum, 

 and one on dorsum at f , whence an obscure brown line runs very near lower 

 half of termen ; costal edge dark fuscous, and costal area on posterior half 

 of wing broadly suffused with dark fuscous : cilia fuscous ; base, tips, and 

 a faint median line whitish. Hindwings with 5 and 6 stalked ; dark 

 fuscous, rather lighter anteriorly : cilia dark grey. 



Waitakere, in January (Hudson) ; two specimens. Allied to chasmatias, 

 but wholly different in appearance through the dark colouring. 



TlNEIDAE. 



Endophthora stereota n. sp. 



<$. 7-8 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous- white. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings narrow-lanceolate, acute ; ochreous- whitish irrorated with pale 

 grey, with some scattered black scales ; three black spots on costa mar- 

 gined beneath with brownish-ochreous, first at \, connected with base by 

 a costal line of black irroration, others before middle and at § ; a small 

 light brownish-ochreous spot beneath middle of disc, connected with 

 dorsum by a group of black scales ; a group of black scales on tornus, and 

 a small pale-ochreous spot near termen beyond it : cilia ochreous-grey- 

 whitish, at base with a few black specks. Hindwings grey ; cilia ochreous- 

 grey-whitish. 



Auckland, in January (Hudson) ; two specimens. The smallest species 

 of the genus. 



Sagephora felix n. sp. 



S- 10 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second joint dark 

 fuscous except apex. Antennae white, with a blackish band at §, and 

 tip dark fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 shining snow-white ; a dark-fuscous streak along costa from base to f , 

 edged below with ochreous-brown ; a transverse dark-fuscous spot in disc 

 at -§, touching extremity of costal streak ; an irregular line of scattered 

 dark-fuscous specks surrounded with some faint pale-yellowish suffusion 

 running from fold before this spot near dorsum, and thence as a sub- 

 terminal line to a fuscous spot on costa at |- ; a rather dark fuscous spot 

 along apical portion of costa : cilia white, on costa barred with fuscous. 

 Hindwings pale whitish-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Kaeo, in January (Hudson) ; one specimen. Very distinct and inter- 

 esting. 



Bascantis n. g. 



Head with loosely appressed hairs on crown, face rough-haired ; ocelli 

 present ; tongue absent. Antennae nearly 1, basal joint moderate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, porrected, second joint with dense 



