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rounded, rather strongly oblique ; dark fuscous, obscurely 

 irrorated with small greyish-ochreous spots ; several on posterior 

 half of costa more distinct ; a small whitish-ochreous subquad- 

 rate spot on inner margin at £•, and another at f : cilia dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous ; cilia f . 



Mount Arthur (4,000 feet), in January; locally common. 



Mall, metrosema, n. sp. 



Male. — 12-13 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, and thorax pale 

 greyish-ochreous ; palpi short ; auttnnal cihations 4. Abdomen 

 grey. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with whitish-ochreous, posterior 

 tibia? suffused with whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, 

 slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex round- 

 pointed, hindmargin very oblique, slightly rounded ; pale greyish- 

 ochreous, sometimes brownish-tinged; numerous small scattered 

 irregular dark fuscous singula?; a very obscure ochreous-whitish 

 streak along inner margin from ^ to near anal angle, interrupted 

 by a small dark fuscous spot in middle ; a straight narrow dark 

 fuscous fascia from middle of costa to inner margin before anal 

 angle, more or less distinctly interrupted in disc ; three very 

 small dark fuscous spots on posterior half of costa : cilia pale 

 greyish-ochreous, fuscous - tinged. Hindwings fuscous - grey ; 

 cilia |, light fuscous-grey. 



Christchurch, in September ; locally common. 



Mall, microphanes, n. sp. 



Male. — 9 mm. Head, palpi, and antenna? light fuscous ; 

 palpi moderate ; antennal ciliations 2£. Thorax fuscous. Ab- 

 domen grey. Legs grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa 

 slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin extremely obliquely 

 rounded ; rather dark fuscous, irrorated with very obscure grey- 

 whitish spots ; costa with four more distinct small white spots 

 on posterior half: cilia whitish-fuscous, basal half except 

 towards anal angle fuscous obscurely spotted with whitish. 

 Hindwings light grey ; cilia l£, grey-whitish. 



Christchurch, in August ; one specimen. 



ANAPHOKID.E. 



This family, closely allied to the Tineida:, appears to be 

 usually recognisable by the peculiar palpi of the male, of which 

 the terminal joint is very long, stout, recurved, and appressed to 

 the crown and thorax- I will not attempt to give complete family 

 characters, since Lord Walsingham, who has recently published 

 a paper on the group from considerable material, has un- 

 fortunately given no full generic characters nor definition of the 

 group, but only short diagnoses of the genera. In consequence 

 of this I am unable to say whether the following genus is really 

 referable to the family, as I have only seen the one sex, or 



