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oclireous-tinged, somewhat mixed with whitish, with a scanty 

 irroration of small blackish spots, larger and more numerous in 

 female; costal edge white in male, especially towards § ; in male 

 a longitudinal white line about fold from base, above margined 

 with dark fuscous or blackish, beneath shading into a pale 

 ochreous dorsal space, twice slightly sinuate upwards, towards 

 anal angle bent upwards and becoming obsolete ; in female this 

 line is indistinct, the dorsal space hardly paler than ground- 

 colour, but upper black margin tolerably distinct, the sinuations 

 angulated and much more prominent than in male : cilia grey- 

 whitish, somewhat irrorated with grey, with four dark fuscous 

 lines. Hindwings ovate-lanceolate, grey ; cilia whitish grey, 

 towards tips more whitish. 



A variable species. 



Larva green, feeding on cabbages and other Crucifera, to 

 which it is sometimes exceedingly destructive, eating the leaves 

 into holes. Pupa in an open network cocoon. 



Cambridge, Wellington, Taranaki, Christchurch, Bealey 

 Kiver, Lake Wakatipu, and probably universally ; abundant in 

 the neighbourhood of gardens from August to March. Intro- 

 duced from Europe, and now occurring probably throughout the 

 world ; in Australia often very numerous. 



Sect. B. — Veins 5 and 6 of hindwings separate. 

 24. Pint, sera, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 11-13 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, more or less mixed with dark fuscous. An- 

 tenna? ochreous-white, with median and posterior bands and two 

 subapical rings dark fuscous. Thorax light brownish-ochreous, 

 anterior margin mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 

 grey. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints and posterior tibia? 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin hardly rounded, very 

 oblique ; light brownish-ochreous mixed with grey, and with a 

 scanty irroration of small black spots ; a crescentic black mark 

 on fold before middle, extremities directed upwards, posterior 

 tending sometimes to be produced as a cloudy streak to costa 

 beyond middle ; a fuscous streak from inner margin at f towards 

 costa near apex, but becoming obsolete before reaching it, 

 margined with black towards lower extremity, sometimes little 

 darker than ground colour ; a blackish line along upper part of 

 hindmargin : cilia whitish-ochreous with a black line, a blackish 

 spot at apex and a larger one below middle of hindmargin. 

 Hindwings elongate-ovate, light grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



Most allied to the European P. annulatella. 



Taranaki, Makatoku, and Palmerston, in March; also com- 

 mon in Eastern Australia, where the imago is on the wing most 

 of the year, frequenting the neighbourhood of cultivation, 



