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spot. Palpi whitish, second joint streaked with dark fuscous above and 

 beneath, terminal joint dark fuscous towards base. Thorax whitish- 

 ochreous. shoulders with a dark- fuscous spot. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched ; apex round-pointed, 

 upturned, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; greyish-ochreous, with a 

 few dark-fuscous scales ; markings fuscous mixed with blackish ; four 

 oblique patches from costa, more or less confluent with a broad irregular 

 submedian streak from near base to apex, first near base, second broadest, 

 before middle, third narrow, fourth reduced to a streak ; an irregular dark- 

 fuscous apical spot surrounded with white : cilia whitish, with an inter- 

 rupted black subbasal line, and fuscous post-median line, tips fuscous at 

 apex. Hindwings grey-whitish ; cilia whitish, at apex with two dark- 

 grey lines. 



Wellington (Hudson) ; one specimen. Intermediate between erebistis 

 (which has hitherto stood rather isolated) and fulguritella. 



Taleporia Hb. 



The genus Taleporia has not previously been identified from the 

 Southern Hemisphere, but the following species agrees fully with it, 

 except that veins 7 and 8 of the forewings are separate, whereas in the 

 typical European species they are stalked ; in this group, however, this 

 character is of little importance, and I have no hesitation in regarding 

 the species as a true Taleporia, a very interesting discovery. 



Taleporia aphrostcha n. sp. 



<3 22 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae dark fuscous, antennal cilia - 

 tions 2|. Thorax dark fuscous, with several whitish dots posteriorly. 

 Abdomen dark grey, somewhat whitish-mixed. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow at base, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; all veins separate ; white, mixed with grey 

 in disc and towards costa, coarsely reticulated throughout with dark 

 fuscous ; the white colour forms a more conspicuous quadrate spot on 

 dorsum before middle, including a dark - fuscous dorsal strigula, and 

 preceded and followed by irregular dark-fuscous spots : cilia fuscous, 

 basal half spotted with white. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia fuscous. 



$ apterous, active. 



Hump Ridge, Invercargill, 3,500 ft. (Philpott) ; a pair in December. 



Hepialidae. 

 Porina copularis n. sp. 



S 38-40 mm., $ 44—50 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, some- 

 times partially tinged with fuscous. Antennae in <J shortly bipectinated 

 with flattened-wedge-shaped teeth. (2). Abdomen pale ochreous, in $ in- 

 fuscated except anal tuft. Forewings formed nearly as in umbraculata, 

 but costa more sinuate ; pale ochreous, in $ tinged with fuscous ; a white 

 dot finely edged with dark fuscous in disc at \, and an elongate mark 

 beyond middle ; in $ sometimes a smaller dot beneath submedian fold 

 rather beyond first ; a faint pale irregular sinuate transverse shade at §, 

 sometimes marked with a few indistinct fuscous strigulae, and sometimes 

 a series of indistinct fuscous dots beyond this : cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 barred with ochreous or greyish-ochreous. Hindwings pale fuscous tinged 

 with ochreous ; cilia as in forewings. 



West Plains, Invercargill (Philpott) ; five specimens. 



