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apex rounded-obtuse, termen evenly rounded, rather oblique ; 10 and 11 

 separate ; olive-greenish, sprinkled with blackish ; costal area strigulated 

 with white from j to f ; lines formed by blackish suffusion, first and 

 second double, waved, first somewhat curved, second slightly and rather 

 irregularly curved, somewhat sinuate inwards towards dorsum, median 

 thick, somewhat curved ; a blackish transverse discal mark beyond median 

 line ; second line followed by a white band strigulated with olive-greenish ; 

 subterminal line slender, waved, white, preceded and followed by blackish 

 suffusion tending to form spots ; a terminal series of black lunulate marks : 

 cilia pale olive-greenish, sometimes sprinkled with blackish, narrowly and 

 obscurely barred with white. Hind wings whitish-yellow-ochreous, towards 

 dorsum and termen sometimes finely and slightly sprinkled with grey ; 

 a grey discal dot, sometimes faint ; a terminal series of slight dark-grey 

 marks ; cilia whitish-ochreous-yellow. 



Lake Wakatipu (Hudson), in February ; two specimens. A fine dis- 

 tinct species, resembling melinata and leucelaea. 



Crambidae. 



Orocrambus pervius n. sp. 



<$. 25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, palpi mixed 

 beneath with whitish hairs, shoulder with a slight white mark. Antennae 

 shortly ciliated (\). Abdomen dark grey, apex whitish. Forewings elon- 

 gate, posteriorly dilated, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, 

 somewhat oblique ; dark fuscous, irregularly strewn or partially suffused 

 with ochreous-brown scales ; costal edge slenderly whitish on median area ; 

 a rather narrow white median longitudinal streak from base to termen, 

 beyond middle shortly attenuated or interrupted : cilia grey, with a white 

 bar on median streak. Hindwings dark grey, pectinations ochreous-whitish ; 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, basal third grey. Hindwings beneath largely suffused 

 with ochreous-whitish. 



Lake Wakatipu, 3,600 ft. (Hudson), in February ; two specimens. 

 Closely allied to catacaustus, which, however, is browner, with a white 

 shoulder-stripe (not mentioned in my description), and with the median 

 stripe only seldom showing a tendency to interruption ; but the reliable 

 distinguishing character lies in the form of the forewings, of which in cata- 

 caustus the termen is not oblique on the upper portion. 



Pyraustidae. 

 Scoparia triscelis Meyr. 



This distinct species, originally described from Auckland Island (" Sub- 

 antarctic Islands of New Zealand," p. 71), has now been found by Mr. 

 Hudson at Lake Wakatipu ; a very interesting observation. 



Scoparia locularis n. sp. 



$. 21 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi 2f, dark fuscous, basal 

 joint white. Antennal ciliations §. Thorax white mixed with grey and 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, narrow at 

 base, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, 

 oblique ; light grey, irregularly mixed with white, with some scattered 

 black scales ; an oblique streak of black suffusion from base of costa ; first 

 line white, rather oblique, slightly sinuate, posteriorly strongly edged with 

 black suffusion ; orbicular and elaviform represented by elongate marks 



