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Tinea fagicola n. sp. 



cJ 9. 10 mm. Head grey, face whitish. Palpi rather short, whitish 

 banded with dark fuscous. Antennae whitish-grey ringed with black. 

 Thorax blackish, somewhat pale-sprinkled. Abdomen dark grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen very obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous irregularly speckled with 

 whitish ; variable short white costal strigulae, normally five or six on basal 

 third, three about middle, two at §, one or two beyond this, and two 

 before apex ; oblique narrow blackish fasciae from costa before and beyond 

 median group not reaching dorsum ; two or three suffused white strigulae 

 on middle of dorsum : cilia grey with black subbasal line and dark -fuscous 

 subapical shade, marked with white on praeapical strigulae. Hindwings 

 dark grey ; cilia grey, with dark -fuscous subbasal line. 



Day's Bay, Wellington, from December to February, on Fagus trunks 

 (Hudson) ; seven specimens. Although very dissimilar to the normal 

 form of T. margaritis, I have a mottled variety of that species which made 

 me at first doubtful whether this might not be a dark local form of it ; it 

 may be useful, therefore, to point out that (as I find on closer study) the 

 palpi in margaritis are much longer and more slender relatively, and the 

 antennae in margaritis are relatively longer, with closer and much more 

 numerous joints (nearly 50), whilst in this species they do not much exceed 

 30 and are more distinct. 



Nepticulidae. 

 Nepticula progonopis n. 6p. 



$. 6 mm. Head deep orange. Antennae dark grey, eye-caps whitish. 

 Thorax dark purple-grey % Abdomen dark grey. Forewings lanceolate ; 

 dark purple-grey : cilia grey, toward base mixed with dark purple-grey. 

 Hindwings with frenulum long, simple ; dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Mount Arthur, 4,000 ft., in January (Hudson) ; one specimen. 



Hepialidae. 

 Porina ascendens n. sp. 



$. 42-52 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous. Fore- 

 wings with costa almost straight, arched near apex, termen slightly rounded, 

 oblique ; pale bronzy-ochreous ; an irregular-edged inverted-triangular 

 patch of grey-whitish irroration extending beneath middle from base to f , 

 more or less partially edged above by a dark -fuscous line and also anteriorly 

 beneath ; post-median and subterminal series of small whitish spots or 

 marks finely edged with dark-fuscous irroration parallel to termen, placed 

 in more or less developed bands of grey-whitish irroration : cilia pale 

 ochreous sometimes mixed with dark fuscous, obscurely barred with whitish. 

 Hindwings very pale rosy-grey, tinged with pale ochreous towards termen ; 

 cilia pale ochreous barred with whitish. 



Mount Arthur, in January (Hudson) ; two examples. Although I have 

 not seen a male, I venture to describe this, which is quite distinct from any 

 other. 



