Meybick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 17o 



yellow- whitish. Abdomen dark grey. Legs dark purplish -fuscous. 



Forewings elongate, narrow, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 

 sinuate, oblique ; deep ferruginous-bronze, with purplish re- 

 flections, finely irrregularly irrorated with dark grey and whitish ; 

 markings coppery- metallic ; a very oblique streak from costa near 

 base to fold ; an irregular transverse mark parallel to hind- 

 margin in middle of disc, in female reaching costa in middle, 

 and then appearing as a curved fascia not reachhTg inner margin ; 

 a transverse angulated fascia from beneath costa at f- to above 

 anal angle, not reaching margins ; a hindmarginal fascia, con- 

 taining two small round deep black spots above anal angle : 

 cilia deep ferruginous-bronze, mixed with dark grey. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous-grey, lighter towards base, sometimes coppery- 

 tinged ; cilia grey. 



Hamilton aud Christchurch, in January, March and June ; 

 four specimens. 



9. Orthenches, n. g. 



Head smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue well-developed. An- 

 tennae i, in male filiform, simple or pubescent, somewhat 

 thickened at base, joints angularly projecting, basal joint mo- 

 derately elongate, with strong pecten. Labial palpi moderate 

 or long, recurved, with appressed scales, somewhat rough be- 

 neath throughout except at apex, terminal joint from as long to 

 twice as long as second, acute. Maxillary palpi tolerably fili- 

 form, curved, ascending. Posterior tibiaa rough-haired beneath. 

 Forewings with vein 1 furcate, 2 almost from angle of cell, 7 to 

 apex, 11 from a of cell, all veins separate, secondary cell 

 strongly defined. Hindwings as broad as forewings, elongate- 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, hindmargin sometimes rather sinuate, 

 cilia |-1 ; all veins remote, tolerably parallel ; beneath some- 

 times with a neural ridge or pecten in male. 



Larva feeding openly or amongst loosely spun leaves. 



la. Apex of forewings acute 22. porphyrias. 



lb. ,, ,, rounded. 



2a. Head whitish-yellowish 20. chlorocoma. 



2b. „ grey-whitish 21. prasinodes. 



20. Orth. chlorocoma; n. sp. 



Male. — 15 mm. Head and antenna? pale whitish -yellowish. 

 Palpi moderate, yellow whitish, second joint with a dark grey 

 subapical band, terminal joint as long as second. Thorax pale 

 whitish-yellowish, sides brownish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Legs fuscous, beneath whitish, anterior pair blackish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, costa slightly sinuate, apex and hind- 

 margin rounded ; fuscous- whitish, towards costa and base slightly 

 yellowish-tinged, with thin irregular blackish irroration through- 

 out, tending to accumulate in small spots, especially on margins ; 

 a small round black spot in disc at § : cilia pale whitish-yellowish, 

 suffusedly barred with blackish-grey. Hindwings elongate-ovate, 



