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termen evenly rounded, not strongly oblique ; dark greenish-fuscous with 

 some admixture of yellowish ; markings white tinted with yellow and 

 sparsely sprinkled with brown; a broad band at J slightly curved; median 

 and second fasciae broad, coalescing at middle and enclosing a triangular blotch 

 of ground-colour on costa ; sometimes throwing out a projection to middle of 

 termen, thus interrupting the broad dark terminal area ; a terminal series 

 of irregular blackish dots : cilia ochreous mixed with brown. Hind wings 

 pale yellow sprinkled with fuscous ; a more or less interrupted brown 

 terminal line: cilia yellow obscurely barred with brown. 



I The 2 differs in having much of the dark ground-colour replaced by the 

 lighter shade of the markings. The basal patch and median band are much 

 reduced, and the terminal dark area is represented only by a triangular 

 subapical patch and some small marks on the lower half. Possibly, however, 

 the specimen is a variety, and the markings of the normal female may more 

 closely resemble those of the male. 



The species has some affinity with Selidosema melinata Feld., but differs 

 strikingly in the presence of the broad white first line. 



Taihape, in February, and Feilding, in March. A <$ taken in each 

 locality by the late Mr. A. Hamilton. The 2 was secured by Mr. J. H. 

 Lewis, locality uncertain. 



Types {3 and 2) in coll. Dominion Museum. 



Declana^sinuosa sp. nov. 



($ $. 35-36 mm. Head and thorax reddish-brown, more or less 

 sprinkled with white. Thorax with small posterior crest. Antennae in 

 ; shortly bipeetinate, in 2 dentate. Abdomen grey. Forewings, costa 

 strongly arched at base, widely sinuate to apex, termen shortly sinuate 

 beneath apex, strongly rounded, hardly oblique ; purplish-grey, sometimes 

 mixed with ochreous ; a series of inwardly oblique dark strigulae along 

 costa ; first line about J, usually almost obsolete, inwardly oblique, some- 

 times preceded by a purplish shade ; second line at f, slightly outwardly 

 oblique, indented above and below middle and followed by suffused purple shade ; 

 a suffused white interrupted fascia from apex to near tornus : cilia dark 

 grey. Hindwings fuscous-grey : cilia grey-whitish with darker median band. 



Nearest to Declana griseata Hdsn., but with shorter antennal pectinations 

 and termen of forewings much less oblique. 



Ben Lomond, in bush, to 3,000 ft. November to March. I am indebted 

 to Mr. M. 0. Pasco for several good examples. 



Crambidae. 

 Crambus oppositus sp. nov. 



3 2- 28-32 mm. Head dark ochreous-brown, crown whitish, more 

 pronounced in $. Palpi moderate, ochreous-brown, whitish above and 

 beneath in 2. Thorax dark ochreous-brown with narrow central white 

 stripe, broader in 2. Abdomen fuscous-grey in o, grey-whitish in 2. Fore- 

 wings moderate, dilated posteriori}', costa hardly arched, apex almost 

 rectangular, faintly sinuate ; dark ochreous-brown with brassy reflections, 

 slightly paler in 2 ', costal edge usually narrowly whitish (in J ochreous- 

 whitish) throughout, a little dilated at f ; a rather broad straight white 

 central stripe, sometimes margined above and beneath with blackish ; 

 dorsum narrowly white throughout : cilia in ,£ brown with basal half white 

 from apex to middle, in 2 white with grey median line. Hindwings, in 3 

 dark fuscous ; in 2 white, irregularly suffused with pale fuscous : ^cilia in J 

 fuscous-grey with two or more fuscous lines, in 2 shining white. 



