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Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, without fold, apex round- 

 pointed, termen slightly sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; pale ochreous 

 slightly tinged with brownish, sometimes partially suffused with whitish 

 on costal third, veins sometimes marked with fine fuscous lines, sometimes 

 with a few scattered black scales ; some dots of dark-fuscous scales on dor- 

 sum ; an undefined median streak from base to apex more or less indicated 

 by darker suffusion or fuscous irroration ; a dark-fuscous discal dot on 

 lower angle of cell : cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish, 

 with grey subbasal line. 



Invercargill, on coast sandhills (Philpott), in January : two specimens. 



Gelechiadae. 

 Gelechia glaucoterma n. sp. 



o . 9-10 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, back and sides of crown suffused 

 with grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish, terminal joint shorter than second. 

 Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax dark grey mixed with blackish. Abdomen 

 light grey, segments 4-6 somewhat blackish-mixed, segmental margins 

 whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex acute, 

 termen extremely obliquely rovmded ; dark grey ; an oblique bar of white 

 suffusion from costa at ^, reaching half across wing, accompanied with 

 some whitish-ochreous scales, sometimes tending to extend along costa to 

 base ; an undefined patch of blackish suffusion in disc beyond this, repre- 

 senting first discal and plical stigmata, and a rather large roundish black spot • 

 representing second discal, with more or less whitish irroration between 

 these and on margins of second discal ; a white patch occupying apical 

 fourth, mixed with dark grey or dark fuscous towards apex, anterior edge 

 irregularly indented in middle : cilia whitish, with an interrupted fuscous 

 subbasaLline. Hindwings 1, grey-whitish, apex greyer ; cilia whitish. 



Invercargill, on coast sandhills (Philpott), in January ; two specimens. 



Oecophoridae. 

 Borkhausenia paratrimnia n. sp. 



c^. 14-15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-fulvous. Palpi and antennae 

 ■dark grey, antennal ciliations 1. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen very 

 obliquely rounded ; ochreous-fulvous, somewhat sprinkled Avith grey, to- 

 wards all margins suffused with grey irroration ; two oblique fasciae of grey 

 irroration crossing plical and second discal stigmata, which are marked 

 on them as indistinct cloudy darker dots : cilia ochreous-fulvous irrorated 

 with grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Invercargill (Philpott) ; two specimens. A distinct though incon- 

 spicuous species, which may be regarded as an early form of the siderodeta 

 group. 



Borkhausenia nycteris Meyr. 



9. 17 mm. Head and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, somewhat mixed 

 with light ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous mixed with pale ochreous, second 

 joint with erect projecting scales beneath. Abdomen dark brown, sides 

 and margin of segments dark grey. Forewings bronzy-brown, base of 

 scales dark fuscous, towards base of costa and in middle of disc mixed with 

 jellow-ochreous ; a yellow-ochreous blotch extending along basal | of 



