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an oblique black median band, basal joint white. Antennae 

 fuscous, ciliatious in male £. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs 

 dark fuscous, banded with white, posterior pair suffused with 

 white. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin oblique, slightly rounded ; 

 basal f ochreous-brown, terminated by a straight line from § of 

 costa to | of inner margin, terminal §■ light-grey ; a thick very 

 oblique black streak from base of costa to J of disc ; first line 

 thick, black, almost straight, preceded by a white irroration ; 

 orbicular and claviform obsolete ; space between ochreous-brown 

 colour and second line suffused with white ; reniform 8-shaped, 

 faintly outlined with grey ; second line slender, whitish, ante- 

 riorly margined with grey, sinuations indented, central portion 

 strongly curved ; subterminal cloudy, whitish, interrupted and 

 touching second line in middle ; an interrupted white hind- 

 marginal line : cilia ochreous-whitish, with a grey subbasal line. 

 Hindwings 1^, very pale whitish-grey, postmedian line and 

 hindmargin suffusedly darker grey; cilia whitish, with a grey 

 line. 



Wellington ; three specimens in January. Closely allied to 

 S. periphanes, and very similar ; best distinguished by the form 

 of the second line, which has both sinuations rather strongly 

 marked and indented, and the median portion rather strongly 

 curved, whilst in S. periphanes the upper sinuation is very slight, 

 the lower imperceptible, and the median portion very slightly 

 curved ; in S. colpota the first line is less oblique, and not dis- 

 tinctly white as in S. periphanes. 



Scop, periphanes, Meyr. 

 Also from Whangarei, in December. 



Scop, psammitis, Meyr. 

 Also from Mount Arthur (4,000 feet). 



Scop, epicomia, Meyr. 

 Also from Auckland and Nelson (to 3,800 feet), in December. 



Scn/i. awena, Meyr. 

 Also from Mount Arthur (4,000 to 4,500 feet). 



Scop, exilis, Knaggs. 

 Also from Wellington, in January. 



Scop, deltophora, Meyr. 

 Also from Mount Arthur (4,500 feet). 



Scop., trivirgata, Feld. 

 Also from Mount Arthur (3,800 feet), in January. 



