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SCOPARIAD^E. 



ScOPAKIA, Hw. 



Scop, minualis, Walk. 

 Also from Napier, in December. 



Scop, dinodes, Meyr. 

 Also from Wellington. 



Scop, cymatias, Meyr. 

 Also from Nelson. 



Scop, encapna, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 18-20 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs dark fuscous ; palpi 2, basal joint white ; 

 antennae in male pubescent, ciliations ^; legs banded with 

 white, posterior tibiae irrorated with white. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa almost straight, apex rounded, hindmargin 

 straight, somewhat oblique, rounded beneath ; rather dark 

 glossy fuscous, with bronzy reflections, and a few scattered 

 white scales ; veins partially irregularly marked with black ; 

 first line slender, whitish, indistinct, posteriorly black-margined, 

 indented in middle ; orbicular small, suboval, outlined with 

 black, touching first line ; claviform small, round, black, 

 detached, conspicuous ; reniform 8-shaped, obscurely outlined 

 with darker, separated from second line by a stronger white 

 irroration ; second line slender, whitish, anteriorly dark-mar- 

 gined, rather irregularly sinuate ; subterminal line slender, 

 whitish, somewhat interrupted, not touching second line : 

 cilia fuscous, with a darker subbasal line, tips obscurely spotted 

 with ochreous-whitish. Hindwings 1 .\ ; fuscous-grey, with a 

 suffused dark fuscous hindmarginal band ; cilia light fuscous, 

 with a darker line, tips whitish. 



Mount Arthur (3,800 to 4,000 feet), in January; local, but 

 abundant where it occurred, flying wildly over the tops of 

 bushes in the sunshine. In my tabulation of the genus it falls 

 under the same head with the very different S. cymatias, from 

 which, as well as from almost all other species of the genus, 

 it may be immediately distinguished by the very dark hind- 

 wings. It may be placed between S. a-gatis and S. critica. 



Scop, powjalis, Feld. 

 Also from Auckland, in December. 



Scop, colpota, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 17-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish mixed 

 with fuscous ; shoulders dark fuscous. Palpi 2£, fuscous, with 



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