116 Transactions. 



Crambidae, 



Orocrambus subitus n. sp. 



$. 15-16 mm. Head dark brownish-fuscous. Palpi dark brownish- 

 fuscous, whitish above. Antennae fuscous. Thorax dark brownish-fuscous 

 with white lateral stripe. Abdomen dark brownish-fuscous. Forewings, 

 costa straight, apex obtuse, termen slightly oblique, golden brown sprinkled 

 with white scales, densely irrorated with white in disc and along dorsum, 

 white irroration produced as a streak from disc to apex, dorsum narrowly 

 black from base to J ; a thick black central streak from base to |, apex 

 obtuse, margined beneath with golden brown ; a short black streak above 

 apex of basal streak, anteriorly tapered ; a few black scales before tornus 

 indicating a black subterminal line : cilia dark golden brown with obscure 

 darker line. Hindwings dark brownish-fuscous ; cilia brown, paler round 

 tornus. 



$. Forewings with white irroration . extending to costa ; black streaks 

 as in $, but margined with orange : cilia grey mixed with white. Hind- 

 wings, grey, paler round termen ; cilia grey. 



Hump Ridge (Okaka) ; fairly common at 3,500 ft. in December. 



Nearest to 0. thimiastis, but differing from that species in the colour 

 of the streaks in disc, which are white or yellow in thimiastis, black in 

 subitus. 



Pyraustidae. 

 Scoparia clavata n. sp. 



cJ. 26 mm. Head and thorax white, with a black lateral stripe from 

 eye to near middle of thorax. Palpi moderate, white above, sides and 

 beneath dark-brownish. Antennae and abdomen grey. Legs grey, ante- 

 rior pair suffused with fuscous. Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa almost straight, apex rounded, termen subsinuate, oblique ; white, 

 irrorated with brownish-ochreous, costa narrowly brownish ; a thick black 

 median streak from base of costa to almost \, slightly constricted near 

 termination, apex rounded ; a thick black streak in disc above middle, 

 irregularly sinuate, beginning before \ and ending at about § in irregular 

 dilatation ; a subterminal black striga, inwardly oblique and dilated beneath 

 costa and above dorsum ; all streaks margined with brownish-ochreous ; a 

 terminal chain of linear black dots : cilia whitish with two grey lines. 

 Hindwings shining white, ochreous round termen ; cilia white, ochreous 

 near apex. 



Hump Ridge ; in forest, at 3,000 ft., in December ; one specimen. 



Easily distinguished from *S. roluella, its nearest ally, by the subterminal 

 black strigae ; it is also broader-winged than that species. 



