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GRACILARIADJ-;. 



I add a new genus and species to those already described. 



13. Conopomorpha, n. g. 



Head smooth; no ocelli; tongue moderate. Antenna? 1£, 

 in male filiform, simple, basal joint moderate, rather flattened. 

 Labial palpi moderately long, curved, rough-scaled beneath 

 throughout, second joint not reaching base of antenna?, terminal 

 joint acute. Maxillary palpi rather long, slender, porrected. 

 Posterior tibia? thinly clothed with rough hairs above, tarsi 

 twice tibia?. Forewings very narrow, parallel-sided, round- 

 pointed ; 1 simple, 2 from near angle, 3 and 4 short-stalked 

 from angle, 7 to costa, 9 and 10 from close together, 11 absent, 

 upper margin of cell obsolete towards base. Hindwings half as 

 broad as forewings, almost linear, cilia 5 ; transverse vein 

 absent between 3 and 5, 4 absent, 5 and 6 as though from a 

 point, 7 free. 



29. Con. cyavospila, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 12-14 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, some- 

 times suffused with fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint dark 

 fuscous except apex, terminal joint with dark fuscous band and 

 subapical ring. Antenna? grey. Thorax ochreous-whitish, mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs dark fuscous, apex of 

 joints and oblique bands of tibia? whitish. Forewings dark 

 fuscous, irregularly mixed with whitish-ochreous, tending to 

 form small scattered cloudy spots or strigula? ; costa dotted with 

 whitish, with three white strigula? towards base, first two rather 

 inwardly, third outwardly oblique, a suffused pair beyond 

 middle, and three oblique pairs towards apex, first of these 

 meeting a similar pair from inner margin, preceded in disc by a 

 small white spot, and followed by a metallic-blue spot ; two 

 oblique whitish .strigula? from inner margin beyond middle, and 

 sometimes one or two others beneath fold ; a transverse metallic- 

 blue ante-apical line ; a small metallic-blue apical spot : cilia 

 grey, round apex whitish, with dark fuscous lines. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous ; cilia grey. 



Taranaki, Palmerston, Makatoku, and Masterton ; com- 

 mon in February and March amongst dense forest. In repose 

 the imago sits either with the fore-part raised as in Gracilaria, or 

 closely appressed to surface, but with the four anterior legs 

 laterally extended ; the latter position is apparently most habi- 

 tual, serving to conceal it on the tree-trunks on which it usually 

 sits. 



