74 Transactions. — Zooloyy. 



arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate, rather strongly 

 oblique ; light brownish-ochreous, tinged with grey towards 

 inner margin ; a broad white streak along costa from base to 

 apex, extremities pointed, margined beneath by a blackish 

 streak from before middle to apex ; about eight fine short dark 

 fuscous strigulre on posterior half of costa ; an erect leaden- 

 metallic streak from anal angle, and another from middle of 

 hindmargin, both touching margin of costal streak : cilia pale 

 brownish-ochreous, with a blackish apical spot. Hindwings 

 grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 



Auckland (Waitakere Kanges), in December ; two specimens, 

 beaten from a small-leaved shrub in kauri forest. 



TORTRICIDvE. 

 Peoselena, Meyr. 



Pros, loxias, n. sp. 



Male. — 13-14 mm. Head and palpi ferruginous, face light 

 brownish-ochreous. Antenna? blackish, obscurely spotted with 

 whitish-ochreous, moderately biciliated (1). Thorax dark fuscous, 

 patagia ferruginous. Abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft brownish- 

 ochreous. Legs ochreous-brown, banded with dark fuscous, 

 posterior pair whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, parallel- 

 sided, costa moderately arched near base, thence straight, apex 

 obtuse, hindmargin almost straight, oblique ; whitish-ochreous, 

 marbled with pale ferruginous ; basal patch somewhat mixed 

 with deeper ferruginous and black, outer edge running from \ of 

 costa to ^ of inner margin, partly marked with black, sharply 

 angulated in middle ; central fascia from | of costa to before 

 anal angle, deep ferruginous mixed with black, rather narrow, 

 tolerably even, posterior edge becoming indistinct on lower half 

 and merging with an equally broad patch of leaden-grey scales ; 

 a deep ferruginous semi-annular pale-centred costal spot at i, 

 mixed with black ; a small deep ferruginous spot, mixed with 

 black, before hindmargin in middle : cilia pale ochreous, with 

 two faint greyish lines. Hindwings dark fuscous-grey, some- 

 what lighter towards base ; cilia whitish-ochreous, obscurely 

 suffused with grey on basal half, with a dark-grey basal line. 



Mount Arthur (4,000 feet), in January ; two specimens. 



Pros, zatrophana, Meyr. 

 Also from Mount Arthur (2,600 feet). 



Harmologa, Meyr. 



Harm, latomana, Meyr. 

 Also from Mouut Arthur (4,400 to 4, GOO feet) ; common. 



