72 Transactions. 



Pterophorid^. 

 Sphenarches caffer, Z. 



2 specimens. Africa, soiitliern Asia, Australia, Pacific islands. 



TORTRICID^. 



Capua semiferana, Walk. 



3 specimens. New Zealand. 



EUCOSMID^. 



Spilonota melanotreta, n. sp. 



$ . 22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax rather dark fuscous mixed with 

 whitish, patagia tinged with brownish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen gently rounded, oblique ; brownish, sufEusedly mixed 

 with grey-whitish, and sprinkled with dark fuscous ; costa with oblique 

 alternate long and short dark strigulse ; an irregular streak of blackish 

 suffusion along basal third of dorsum ; an irregular streak of dark-brown 

 suffusion mixed with blackish along submedian fold from base to middle, 

 and a similar longitudinal streak in disc from i to |, connected posteriorly 

 with an elongate blackish spot above middle nearly reaching termen ; a 

 very small irregular black apical spot ; three or four minute black dots 

 towards termen on lower half, and three or four others on central third of 

 termen ; cilia fuscous, with rows of whitish points edged anteriorly -wath 

 blackish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 long-stalked ; grey, on veins and towards 

 termen suffused with dark fuscous ; ciUa gxey-whitish, with fuscous sub- 

 basal shade. 



1 specimen ; 8 others taken. 



* Bactra noteraula, Wals. {straminea, Meyr.). 

 1 specimen. New Zealand. 



Polychrosis meliscia, n. sp. 



$ . 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous, second joint of 

 palpi finely sprinkled with dark fuscous towards middle. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 gently rounded, oblique ; 2 from | of cell ; whitish-ochreous finely speckled 

 with dark fuscous, and irregularly strewn with small ferruginous-ochreous 

 strigulse ; markings faint, indefinite, formed by greater development of dark 

 speckling and strigulation ; a moderate basal patch, outer edge nearly 

 straight, rather oblique ; central fascia indicated by a broad costal blotch 

 reaching half across wing and a patch before tornus ; cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 obscurely barred with ferruginous-ochreous. Hindwings grey-whitish, pos- 

 teriorly faintly strigulated with grey ; cilia whitish. 



1 specimen ; 1 other taken. 



COSMOPTERYGID^. 



Stagmatophora sellotricha, Meyr. 



2 specimens. New Zealand. 



Pachyrhabda antinoma, n. sp. 



<? . 9 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and legs silvery-white, 

 terminal joint of palpi with anterior edge dark fuscous ; antennae greyish 



