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dorsum, its extremities grey ; stigmata black, plical obliquely "before first 

 discal, connected by a black mark with extremity of preceding dorsal blotch. 

 and edged beneath by a white dot ; an indistinct spot of whitish sufi'usion 

 beneath costa towards base, and a larger and more defined one on eosta 

 before middle ; a white streak connecting second discal stigma with dorsum 

 before tornus, preceded on dorsum by a black mark ; apical third suffused 

 with yellow-ochreous, including a subterminal shade of dark brown and 

 blackish irroration sharply indented beneath costa, partially edged with 

 whitish suffusion, especially towards costa : cilia light yellow-ochreous. 

 towards apex and tornus suffused with dark grey, beneath tornus with a 

 white mark. Hindwings grey ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal line. 



This handsomely variegated female was taken by Mr. Hudson in cop. 

 with a normal dark-fuscous male, to which it is superficially very dissimilar ; 

 both sexes, however, agree in the peculiar erect projecting scales of the 

 second joint of palpi (not noticed in my original description), and could be 

 separated from all others known to me by this character alone. My original 

 description is stated as including the female, but I think this must be an 

 error ; at any rate, all the specimens in my series are males. Taken at the 

 Otira River by Mr. Hudson ; previously from Wellington and Invercargill. 



Borkhausenia plagiatella A\ alk. 



Tinea plagiatella Walk., Cat., vol. 28, p. 485 ; Gelechia contextella. 

 ih., vol. 29, p. 656. 



cJ $. 15-17 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, face sometimes yellower. Palpi 

 white, second joint dark fuscous except towards apex, terminal joint some- 

 times sprinkled with dark fuscous in middle. Antennal ciliations almost 1. 

 Thorax whitish-ochreous sometimes yellowish-tinged, shoulders dark fuscous, 

 sometimes dorsally suffused with fuscous or marked with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; white ; markings 

 brownish-ochreous irrorated with blackish or dark fuscous ; a fascia from 

 base of costa above fold to plical stigma ; costal blotches at \, middle, and 

 f , last sending a curved dark-fuscous line to tornus ; discal stigmata black, 

 second crescentic, filled with ochreous-yellowish beneath, plical represented 

 by an oblique black mark above which is some ochreous-yellowish suffusion ; 

 a dorsal blotch of ochreous-yellowish sufi'usion towards base ; a triangular 

 patch of ochreous suffusion occupying middle of dorsal area, irrorated with 

 blackish posteriorly ; a fascia of ochreous - yellowish suffusion variably 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous running from middle costal blotch to tornus ; 

 an irregular apical spot more or less produced along termen : cilia whitish- 

 yellowish, with apical and tornal blotches of dark-fuscous irroration. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grey. 



Wellington, Otira River (Hudson), Nelson, in December and January : 

 eight specimens. Distinguished from its nearest allies, contexteUa Meyr. 

 and heminiochh, by the well-marked partial yellowish suffusion of fore- 

 wings and grey liindwings. 



Borkhausenia contextella Meyr. 



Oecophora conlcxteUa Mevr. {nee Walk.). Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1883.. 

 p. 37 



(J$. 14 17 mm. Hindwings and cilia should be described as grey- 

 whitish. This species is, so far as I can determine from an examination 



