l(j Transactions. 



Pterophorid^. 

 Platyptilia aeolodes, Meyr. 



Described (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, 278) from the Chatham Islands ; 

 but Mr. Philpott has now sent me two specimens from Invercargill — a very 

 interesting record. It is allied to falcatalis, but smaller and darker, and 

 distinguished by the prominent angulation of termen of second segment of 

 forewings (in falcatalis the margin is somewhat bent but not angulated), 

 and the principal dorsal scale-tuft of hindwings being hardly beyond the 

 middle, whereas in falcatalis it is much broader and is considerably beyond 

 the middle. 



Platyptilia isoterma, n. sp. 



<? . 18 mm. Head white mixed with dark reddish-fuscous, frontal tuft 

 moderately long. Palpi brownish irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae 

 grey, above with a blackish hne. Thorax whitish irrorated with dark reddish- 

 fuscous, metathorax suffused \%'ith black and edged with white. Abdomen 

 dark reddish-fuscous sprinkled with whitish, and mixed with blackish on 

 sides towards middle. Legs reddish-fuscous sprinkled with white, tibiae and 

 tarsi banded with white and dark fuscous. Forewings cleft from beyond f , 

 segments broad, termen of first sinuate, of second bowed in middle ; red- 

 dish-fuscous closely irrorated vnth whitish and sprinkled with dark fuscous, 

 anterior f transversely strigulated mth white, especially towards dorsum ; 

 costal edge suffused with dark fuscous and strigulated with white ; a tri- 

 angular black blotch on costa at f , its apex produced and extending to before 

 lower angle of cleft, edged posteriorly by a fascia of brownish-ochreous 

 suffusion crossing base of both segments, followed by a broader fascia of 

 dark-fuscous suffusion, edged posteriorly by an even whitish line parallel 

 to termen : cilia grey, on costa dark fuscous with a white sj)ot before apex, 

 on termen whitish towards base with a sharply marked even black basal 

 line throughout, on dorsum mixed -with black scales, forming a tolerably 

 even hne posteriorly, at f with a flat black scale-tooth preceded and followed 

 by whitish patches. Hindwings cleft firstly from middle, secondly from ^, 

 segments moderately broad, termen of second subsinuate ; grey ; ciha 

 light grey, on dorsum mixed -wdth black scales throughout, with a moderate 

 elongate-triangular black scale-projection beginning at |. 



AVellington ; one specimen (Hudson). Allied to falcatalis and ceolodes, 

 but differs from both in the strong black entire line at base of terminal 

 cilia of forewings. The species of this genus require careful discrimination, 

 and probably more remain to be found in the mountains ; their larvae are 

 usually attached to Compositce (feeding variously on the flowers or leaves, 

 or in the stems), and should be looked for. 



Epiblemid.e. 



Strepsicrates chaophila, n, sp. 



5 . 14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous. Abdomen grey. Fore- 

 • wings elongate, gradually dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen somewhat sinuate, rather oblique ; ferruginous-ochreous, irregularly 

 mixed with white ; costa and dorsum shortly strigulated with blackish ; 

 a large trapezoidal blotch of partial blackish suffusion extending over costal 

 half of wing from base to near middle, posteriorly formed by upper part of 

 central fascia ; a rounded-triangular blackish spot on dorsum before tornus ; 

 a curved leaden-metallic stria from | of costa to tornus, forming posterior 



