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dilated posteriorly, margined beneath by a dark-fuscous blotch, and with 

 a similar blotch above extending beyond ; a white, posteriorly oblique, 

 cuneate striga from dorsum beyond middle, its apex almost reaching costa, 

 followed by a suffused dark -fuscous blotch ; 3 dark-fuscous spots on apical 

 third of costa, sometimes margined with white, often obsolete ; usually 

 some orange scales round tornus : cilia grey, mixed with ochreous and 

 orange at base. Hindwings with vein 4 absent, greyish-fuscous : cilia 

 greyish-fuscous with a darker basal line. 



$. 10-12 mm. Wliite markings of ^ obsolete, and forewings almost 

 wholly suffused with greyish-fuscous. 



Probably with most affinity to E. j)otamias Meyr., from which it is 

 easily separated by the white markings. 



Discovered by Mr. C. C. Fenwick on the Kaikoura Range (Marlborough) 

 in the month of December. Mr. Fenwick informs me that the species 

 was common in marshy spots, and that when disturbed from the herbage 

 it almost invariably alighted on the water. 



Tortrix fastigata n. sp. 



cJ$. 21-24 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale ochreous mixed with 

 brown. Antennae ochreous annulated with brown. Abdomen ochreous. 

 Forewings in ^ elongate-triangular, in 5 oblong, costa hardly arched in 

 cJ, in $ strongly arched at base and indented slightly before middle, apex 

 rounded, termen sinuate, hardly oblique ; pale yellow, irrorated with 

 purplish-brown ; markings in ^ very obscure, median fascia brownish, 

 outwardly oblique beneath costa, bent inwardly to disc, thence obliquely 

 to before tornus ; a triangular brownish blotch on costa before apex ; a 

 slightly curved linear mark beneath this at middle ; in $ a basal striga 

 with a blunt projection outwardly at middle is obscurely indicated, and the 

 triangular costal patch is connected with the curved median mark beneath 

 it : cilia yellow, mixed with brown near apex. Hindwings and cilia pale 

 whitish-yellow sprinkled with purplish-brown. 



Near T. acrocausta Meyr., but the ,3 is much longer- and narrower- 

 winged and the markings of the $ are dissimilar. Probably fastigata is 

 attached to open country, while acrocausta is confined to the bush. 



Longwood Range, a $ at 3,000 ft. in December. Hunter Mountains, 

 one of each sex at 3,500 ft. in January. 



Oecophoridae. 

 Borkhausenia hastata n. sp. 



(J. 19 mm. Head and thorax whitish - ochreous. Palpi whitish- 

 ochreous, mixed with purplish-brown beneath. Antennae whitish-ochreous, 

 annulated with purplish-brown, ciliations 1. Abdomen ochreous-brown, 

 tuft ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa moderateh' arched, apex produced, 

 termen strongly oblique ; whitish-ochreous ; markings purplish-brown ; an 

 obscure streak from base along fold to |- ; a dot above dorsum at base 

 and one in disc at § ; a rather suffused series of spots along termen and 

 some scales on costa near apex : cilia whitish-ochreous with some brownish 

 scales near base. Hindwings and cilia shining white, ochreous tinged. 



Not far from B. cMoradelpha Meyr. in coloration, but wholly different 

 in form of wing, in which it is more nearly approached by the much smaller 

 B. maranta Meyr. 



Seaward Moss, in October. A single specimen. 



