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Palpi dark reddish -fuscous, mixed with whitish. Antennas 

 fuscous, in male suhdentate, rather shortly ciliated. Thorax 

 with moderately large double anterior and small posterior 

 crest ; reddish - fuscous, with a black posteriorly whitish- 

 margined anterior line ; patagia with two black internally 

 whitish-margined streaks on each. Abdomen grey, and tuffc 

 pale reddish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, mixed with 

 reddish-fuscous. Forewings moderately dilated, costa hardly 

 arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin creuulate, obliquely rounded ; 

 reddish-fuscous ; veins dark fuscous, margined with whitish or 

 ochreous-whitish ; a short black median streak from base ; a 

 slender dark reddish-fuscous longitudinal streak in disc from 

 above apex of this to f , posterior extremity somewhat dilated ; 

 a minute white discal dot near beyond its extremity ; a very 

 obhque short blackish streak from inner margin near base ; 

 second line hardly indicated ; subterminal hardly traceable 

 except by two very long whitish dentations touching hind- 

 margin below middle : cilia reddish-fuscous, slenderly barred 

 with whitish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia white or ochreous- 

 whitish, with a grey line. 



Napier, Blenheim, and Christchurch, in November and 

 February ; seven specimens. 



35. Mam, arachnias, n. sp. 



Female. — 37 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax reddish-fuscous, 

 slightly irrorated with white ; forehead with two black trans- 

 verse lines ; collar with a slender white line ; thorax with 

 strong anterior double tuft. Antennae white. Abdomen light 

 reddish-grey. Legs reddish-fuscous irrorated with whitish, 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi white, all tarsi with two apical joints 

 black except apex, spurs banded with black. Forewings mode- 

 rately dilated, costa slightly sinuate, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 waved, obliquely rounded; reddish-fuscous, slightly irrorated 

 with whitish-ociireous, except on a suffused somewhat darker 

 median streak from base to f ; an obscure moderately broad 

 white costal streak from base to |, posteriorly suffused, sharply 

 defined near base only, containing several very oblique ill- 

 defined blackish strigulaB ; orbicular moderate, narrow-oval, 

 longitudinal, very finely margined with white and then with 

 black ; claviform obsolete ; reniform only indicated by two 

 white dots representing its lower angles ; lines very acutely 

 dentate but hardly traceable ; subterminal indicated only by 

 three very acute slender whitish-ochreous dentations, one below 

 apex, two touching hmdmargin below middle : cilia reddish- 

 fuscous mixed with whitish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, with a faint grey line, tips white. 



Napier and Blenheim ; only one specimen seen, sent by Mr, 

 Skellou. 



