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with dark fuscous ; elaviform indicated by a small spot of dark-fuscous 

 suffusion : cilia white, with a grey line. Hindwings 1|, without long hairs 

 in cell ; light grey, paler towards base : cilia white or in one specimen whitish - 

 ochreous, with faint grey line. 



Tisbury and West Plains, Invercargill, in September (Philpott) ; Lake 

 Wakatipu (Hudson) ; four specimens. Nearest psammitis. 



TORTRICIDAE. 



Harmologa allogama Meyr. 



Mr. Hudson has sent me a curious variety of the female, in which the 

 whole forewing is suffused with whitish-ochreous, the pale costal blotch 

 thus becoming obsolete. 



GrLYPHIPTERYGIDAE. 



Simaethis barbigera n. sp. 



9. 19 mm. Head bronzy irrorated with white and dark fuscous. 

 Palpi white, mixed with dark fuscous, second joint with long rough pro- 

 jecting tuft beneath, terminal joint loosely scaled. Thorax greyish-bronze 

 sprinkled with white. Abdomen bronzy-grey, segmental margins white. 

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

 termen bowed, oblique ; greyish-bronze, irregularly irrorated with white, 

 especially towards costa and on a terminal band ; a white transverse dot 

 on end of cell ; second line formed of white irroration, strongly curved 

 outwards : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with dark-grey subbasal line, with 

 patches of whitish suffusion above and below middle of termen. Hindwings 

 light grey ; a terminal fascia of irregular white irroration, most pronounced 

 towards middle, obsolete towards apex : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with 

 dark-grey subbasal line, tips white. 



Mount ( 'leughearn, Hunter Mountains, in January (Philpott) ; one 

 specimen. A very distinct and interesting new form. 



Glyphipteryx rugata n. sp. 



9- 9 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-grey-whitish. Palpi with ap- 

 pressed scales, whitish, with four rings and anterior edge of terminal joint 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen elongate, grey, segmental margins whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely 

 rounded ; dark fuscous, with about ten very irregular broken and partially 

 confluent silvery-whitish transverse striae, towards apex becoming confused 

 dots : cilia whitish, basal area tinged with fuscous within a black line 

 interrupted with white beneath apex. Hindwings short, narrow, pointed, 

 light grey : cilia whitish. 



Tisbury. in January (Philpott) ; one specimen, beaten with others from 

 Weinmannia racemosa. Wings somewhat reduced in proportion to body, 

 the male probably longer-winged. 



Plutellipae. 

 Plutella megalynta n. sp. 



o . 34 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sides of crown dark brown, hairs 

 projecting on forehead. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint brownish- 

 ochreous except apical edge, tuft long, rough, terminal joint much shorter 

 than second. Antennae whitish-ochreous, ciliation 1 , basal joint dark brown, 

 without flap of scales. Thorax brown, with broad ochreous-whitish dorsal 



