BY E. MEYRICK, B'A. 349 



6b. Antennae tolerably well-defined blackish. 



7a. Fore wings short 140. turbatella. 



7b. „ elongate. ...139. psephophora. 



5b. ,, not or slightly dilated. 



6a. Ground colour grey-whitish 145. lithoglypta. 



6 b. „ whitish-ochreous, 



7a. Palpi mostly whitish-ochreous 144. exarcha. 



7b. „ wholly dark-fuscous 143. banausa. 



135. Phloe, clinocosma, Meyr. 



Media, alis ant. fuscis, ochreo-nebulosis, costa partim, dorsi 

 basi, maculis disci tribus strigulaque media nigrantibus ; post, 

 albido-griseis, lunula media saturatiore. 



Immediately distinguished from all others by the distinct darker 

 lunule of the hindwings, a very rare characteristic in the family ; 

 the discal markings are much as in Phloe. semocausta. 



Wellington, New Zealand ; one specimen in January. 



136. Phloe. asbolaea, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. fuscis, apice saturation, margine costali punc- 

 tisque disci tribus longitudinaliter positis atque albido-ochreo 

 disjunctis, quarta etiam plicae nigrescentibus ; post, saturate 

 griseis. 



0*. 23 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous suffused with 

 dark fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, strongly mixed with dark 

 fuscous, terminal joint, and basal half and subapical ring of second 

 joint dark fuscous. Antenna? dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 dark fuscous, central ring of middle tibiae and apex of all joints 

 slenderly whitish, hairs of posterior tibiae grey-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly moderately dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded whitish-ochreous, almost 

 wholly suffused with pale fuscous, and mixed with fuscous and 

 dark fuscous ; costal edge blackish-fuscous ; some cloudy irregular 

 dark fuscous spots towards base ; a small round blackish-fuscous 

 spot in disc before middle, a second in middle, and a third beyond 

 middle, lying in a straight line, and separated by clear whitish- 

 ochreous-spots ; a fourth on fold obliquely before first ; a cloudy 



