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mixed with purplish and spotted with dark fuscous, crest olive-green. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa slightly arched, apex 

 rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; dull purple sprinkled 

 with blackish, tips of scales golden-metallic ; costa and dorsum strigulated 

 and spotted with blackish ; basal and discal areas irregularly marked with 

 dull greenish and black ; in one specimen a large trapezoidal whitish- 

 ochreous blotch extending on dorsum from J to tornus and reaching more 

 than half across wing, narrowed upwards ; cilia bronzy-grey barred with 

 blackish. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Dunedin, in November and February (Philpott) ; two specimens. 



Oecophoridae. 



Saropla Meyr. 



This characteristically Australian genus, which has vein 7 of forewings 

 running to termen, and the second joint of palpi more or less tufted loosely 

 towards apex bmeath, has not been recorded from New Zealand. The 

 following species probably represent an immigrant type from Tasmania. 



Saropla austrina n. sp. 



<$. 12-13 mm. Head pale grey, side tufts and collar whitish. Palpi 

 rather dark grey sprinkled with whitish, second joint with short rough 

 projecting scales towards apex beneath. Antennal ciliations 1\. Thorax 

 and abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex tole- 

 rably poiuted, termen hardly rounded, very oblique ; rather dark grey, 

 somewhat mixed irregularly with white ; a black line beneath fold from base 

 to f of wing, its extremity connected with tornus by a patch of white 

 suffusion surrounded by some scattered black scales ; discal stigmata ap- 

 proximated, black, first linear, second forming a transverse spot, connected 

 by a patch of white suffusion, second followed by a clear white patch ex- 

 tending to termen, surrounded by some scattered black scales : cilia pale 

 grey mixed with white. Hindwings grey ; cilia grey- whitish. 



Ben Lomond, in November (Philpott) ; two specimens. 



Borkhausenia eriphaea n. sp. 



cj. 19-20 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, apex of patagia and 

 posterior edge of thorax pale ochreous. Palpi whitish irro rated with grey. 

 Antennal ciliations 1. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 very obliquely rounded ; lilac-brown, sometimes mixed with grey, anterior 

 half of costa suffused with grey, scales of costal edge whitish from J onwards ; 

 dorsum obscurely paler and ochreous-tinged from base to beyond middle, 

 forming an undefined streak of which the upper edge is marked in middle 

 with a black linear dot followed by a whitish mark : cilia pale ochreous 

 suffasedly irrorated with grey. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey, on costa 

 ochreous- whitish. 



Ben Lomond, in November (Philpott) ; two specimens. Allied to 

 perichlora. 



Trachypepla amphileuca n. sp. 



c?. 16 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous sprinkled with whitish. 

 Antennal ciliations 1. Thorax white, anterior margin narrowly dark fuscous. 



