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the femora aud elytra are darker. It covild liardly be mistaken for 

 G. nicjrituhis on account of its darker and thicker antennae, narrower 

 form, and darker legs. I have seen specimens from Cornwall, South- 

 port, and Ireland (Kerry). 



G. bishojri is the most narrow and elongate species, and is in size 

 a little shorter than G. heysimmis. The autennaj are long, with the 

 penultimate joints slightly longer than broad ; the elytra are excep- 

 tionally long in proportion to the thorax. It most closely resembles 

 G. 2)ennatus, but is distinctly larger and darker (with darker base of 

 antenuse and legs), and Dr. Sharp tells me that he could distinguish 

 this species by these characters in life when he found it in company 

 with G. pennatus. It also has longer antennae. I took a single ^ 

 from flood rubbish sent to me from Bungay, Suffolk, in Dec, 1910. 



G. ap])endicidatus is even slightly smaller on the average than G. 

 pennatus, and is easily distinguished from that species by its much 

 darker colour, liroader head, and shorter legs and autennse. The legs 

 are usually almost black. It does not appear to be a common species 

 in the south, but I have found it by far the commonest member of the 

 group in flood rubbish from Blair Athol and Dalwhinnie. 



Bradfield, Reading .- 



February 1th, 1911. 



A NEW CEAMBUS FEOM NEW ZEALAND. 

 BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.R.S. 



Crambus obstructus, n. sjj. 

 cJ $ . 22-26 mm. Head aud thorax light greyish-ochreous. Antenna) in 

 cJ miniitely ciliated. Palpi 4, fuscous, white towards base beneath. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen in J slightly rounded, rather obliqvie, in ? straight and more 

 oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, more or less strongly infuscated posteriorly ; 

 a rather broad irregular-edged white median streak from base to termen beneath 

 apex, interrupted at f by an irregular spot of the infuscated ground colour ; 

 sometimes some whitish suffusion along costa towards apex ; cilia pale greyish- 

 ochreous, sometimes partially infuscated, on extremity of streak mixed with 

 white. Hind-wings pale whitish-ochreous-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Three specimens taken near Lumsden, Otago, by Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff, who states that they flew into the train, on March 8th, 

 1910. This would imply that the species was locally abundant ; it is 

 an odd accidental discovery, but specimens might be easily overlooked 



