BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 491 



£ ? . Size, form, and colouring quite as in C. excessana; but 

 forewings with a small roundish sharply-defined whitish spot in 



disc at one-third from base. 



Very closely allied to C. excessana, yet conspicuously dis- 

 tinguished by the small whitish spot in disc. 



Five specimens in the British Museum collection ; the locality 

 is given as Auckland, New Zealand. 



7. Cac. excessana, Walk. 

 (Teras excessana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 303). 

 $ $ . 10"-10^". Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-fuscous (in 

 one female bright ochreous) ; palpi rather long. Antennae 

 whitish-ochreous, in female distinctly annulated with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous- whitish, anterior and 

 middle tibice and tarsi banded above with dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings moderately broad, somewhat dilated posteriorly in both 

 sexes, costa gently arched, fold extending from base to one-third, 

 hindmargin sinuate, not oblique, rounded beneath ; greyish- 

 fuscous or ochreous-fuscous finely irrorated with dark fuscous, 

 (in one female bright ochreous) ; markings only indicated by 

 cloudy outlines hardly darker than the groundcolour ; these 

 consist of a basal patch, with outer edge strongly angulated above 

 middle ; a central fascia from middle of costa to inner margin at 

 three-fourths, narrow and very oblique on upper half, strongly 

 dilated on lower half ; a broad triangular patch oh costa before 

 apex ; an irregular cloudy spot on hindmargin above middle : 

 cilia rather paler than groundcolour, with a darker line. Hind- 

 wings whitish-grey spotted with darker grey, cilia whitish with 

 two dark grey lines ; in the ochreous specimen hindwings white 

 tinged with ochreous towards apex and hindmargin, spotted with 

 grey towards inner margin, cilia ochreous-whitish with two grey 

 lines. 



Very variable in groundcolour; the only clear point of 

 distinction appears to be in the faintness of the markings, which 



