BY E. MEYRICK. 



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apex with a fuscous median line. Hindwings grey- whitish; ciUa 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Christchurch, New Zealand; in March, three specimens. It is 

 convenient to describe this New Zealand species here; it is not 

 impossible that it may be found to occur also in Tasmania, and 

 in any case it is closely connected with the Australian species. 



137. 21. crypsicaais, n.sp. 



^Q. 7-10 mm. Head white, crown ochreous-sprinkled. Palpi 

 whitish, a broad band and apical ring of second joint, subbasal 

 and subapical bands of terminal joint black. Antennae whitish,, 

 ringed with fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Legs dark fuscous, irrorated and 

 rino-ed with whitish. Forewings whitish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 fuscous; a i-aised black dot on fold at 1, another beneath fold at 

 \, a third in disc slightly abo\'e middle, a fourth beneath fold 

 obliquely beyond third, almost dorsal, and two transversely placed 

 close together above tornus; a cloudy dark fuscous spot on costa 

 before §; two black dots longitudinally placed at apex : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, mixed with fuscous round apex. Hindwings 

 grey; cilia whitish-grey-ochreous. 



Sydney, New South Wales; Deloraine, Tasmania; in October 

 and November, five specimens. 



138. M. nod (to, n.sp. 



^Q. 7-8 mm. Head white, crown fuscous-sprinkled. Palpi 

 white, second joint with a blackish lateral line, terminal joint 

 with black subbasal and subapical rings. Antennae whitish, 

 beneath fuscous-spotted. Thorax whitish-ochreous, with two 

 dark fuscous posterior spots. Abdomen whitish. Legs dark 

 fuscous, irrorated and ringed with whitish. Forewings very 

 narrow, ochreous, mixed with white and sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous, almost wholly suffused with white on anterior half and 

 sometimes throughout; a raised black dot on fold at \, a larger 

 one beneath fold at \, a third- in disc before middle, a fourth 

 beneath fold obliquely bevond third, almost dorsal, and two trans- 

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