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Hindwing uniform glossy pale grey with a slight ochreous tinge : cilia 

 concolorous. Under-surface very weakly marked, forewing showing some 

 slight pale markings on costa and traces of the distal boundary of median 

 area, the terminal area being very slightly lighter in parts. 



The type $ was taken on the slopes of Ben Lomond, Lake Wakatipu, on 

 the 18th November, 1910, and very kindly presented by the captor, Mr. W. G. 

 Howes. The co-type is a $ sent me subsequently, labelled " Humboldts, 

 24th December, 1911," and which Mr. Howes tells me was taken with 

 others on Bold Peak by Mr. C. Fenwick, through whose generosity it 

 now stands in my collection. 



The wings are not quite so extremely narrow, the <J abdomen not quite 

 so extremely elongate, as in the most typical members of the genus. 



Chloroclystis (Pasiphila) rufulitincta n. sp. 



<$. 27 mm. Structure rather similar to that of bilineolata, the type 

 of the section Pasiphila ; both the palpus and the antennal ciliation 

 slightly shorter, face less tufted, discocellulars of hindwing appreciably 

 though not strongly biangulate. Face and palpus light grey. Head and 

 thorax grey mixed with reddish. Abdomen dark grey with a dorsal belt 

 at base and a media-dorsal line whitish-grey, the anterior segments also 

 marked dorsally with red. Forewing rather elongate, with termen strongly 

 oblique ; glossy pinkish-grey ; a small basal patch and a very broad 

 median band dull-reddish, the proximal edge of the latter from nearly 

 ^ costa to -§ posterior margin, angled basewards between submedian 

 fold and vein 1, outwards at vein 1 ; its distal edge from costa at 

 fully f , oblique outwards to behind vein 4, where it is scarcely 2 mm. 

 distant from termen, here forming a sharp tooth or prong and a second 

 scarcely less sharp behind vein 3, then retracted basewards, finally rather 

 direct from vein 2 to tornus, but indented on submedian fold ; the brightest 

 and most compact part of this median band is its proximal half (narrow- 

 ing somewhat costally), the distal half being more or less dissolved into 

 wavy lines and its outer boundary in the posterior part of the wing not 

 sharply defined, as it here almost meets some terminal shading ; a narrow 

 brown band from costa near apex ending in a point half-way across wing ; 

 some dark shading along termen : cilia grey, darker barred. Hindwing 

 rather elongate, with termen not crenulate ; glossy grey with indistinct 

 beginnings of darker lines on abdominal margin. Under-surface of fore- 

 wing greyish, with dark discal mark and beginnings of dark lines on costa ; 

 of hindwing paler than above, with dark discal spot and several indistinct 

 angled dark lines, especially in basal half. 



A single specimen, taken on the slopes of Ben Lomond, on the 18th 

 November, 1910, by Mr. W. G. Howes ; kindly presented by the captor. 

 Recognizable by its large size (equal to the largest bilineolata), shape, 

 coloration, &c. 



