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margin of ocellus, anterior margin silvery-whitishi, ocellus limited above by 

 -a triangular blackish spot, and containing two or three undefined black 

 dashes : cilia ferruginous-ochreous, with a blackish basal line (imperfect). 

 Hindwings with vein 4 absent ; rather dark grey ; cilia grey, with darker 

 basal shade. 



WelUngton ; one specimen (Hudson). 



TORTRICID^. 



Cacoecia sphenias, n. sp. 



^ . 15 mm. Head and palpi grey ; palpi moderate, terminal joint very 

 short. Antennal ciliations 1. Thorax reddish-ochreous, somewhat mixed 

 with grey. Abdomen rather dark grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa gently arched, fold occupying basal |, apex obtuse, termen shghtly 

 rounded, rather oblique ; reddish-fuscous, sufiusedly strigulated with light 

 yellow-ochreous ; costal fold strigulated with blackish ; several dark ferru- 

 ginous-brown dots on dorsum ; a wedge-shaped ochreous patch mixed with 

 dark reddish-fuscous and towards costa with orange, resting on costa from 

 f to 4, its apex touching .termen above tornus, preceded and followed by 

 undefined bands of grey- whitish suffusion : ciUa reddish-fuscous, tips whitish- 

 yellowish. Hindwings with 6 and 7 stalked ; rather dark grey ; cilia grey- 

 whitish, with, grey basal line. 



Invercargill, in January ; one specimen (Philpott). 



Dipterina crypsidora, n. sp. 



(? . 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brown mixed with dark fuscous ; 

 palpi under 2, whitish-ochreous towards base ; antennal ciliations 2. Abdo- 

 men dark fuscous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa anteriorly moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark 

 purplish-fuscous, irregularly strigulated with blackish-fuscous ; a narrow 

 blackish-fuscous fascia from middle of costa to | of dorsum, slightly curved, 

 somewhat expanded towards costa ; the dark strigulation tends to form 

 two or three spots towards apex : cilia dark fuscous, towards tips paler 

 and somewhat mixed with orange-ochreous. Hindwings dark fuscous, more 

 blackish posteriorly ; cilia grey mixed with bronzy, with blackish-grey basal 

 shade, tips more whitish. Forewings beneath with, a short longitudinal 

 coppery - orange streak beneath upper margin of cell before middle of 

 wing. 



Invercargill, in January ; one specimen (Philpott). 



Eurythecta potamias, n. sp. 



S 2 . 8-9 mm. Head and thorax brown, sometimes sufTused with 

 ferruginous-reddish. Palpi brownish, paler towards base. Abdomen dark 

 grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen very obHquely rounded ; 3 absent, 7 present ; in J with narrow 

 costal fold towards base ; varying from ochreous-brown or dark brown 

 tinged with ochreous to bright ferruginous, sometimes sprinkled with black, 

 termen always suffused with ferruginous ; in c? a more or less indicated 

 streak of ochreous or pale-ochreous suffusion running from base through 

 disc to below middle and thence curved upwards to costa before apex, 

 sometimes distinct and marked at f with a whitish spot, sometimes almost 

 obsolete : ciUa brown. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Invercargill, abundant on short vegetation on sandhills in March (Phil- 

 pott) ; four specimens. This species differs from all the others of the genus 



