Methick. — Notes and Descri ptions of N.Z. Lepidopteru. 69 



Gelech'Adae. 



Symmoca quadrifuncta Haw. : Meyr., Hanclb. Brit. Lep., p. 611. 



Nelson, in February (Sunley). A British species, widely distributed in 

 the European region ; not known from Australia. 



Oecophoridae. 

 Phloeopoki confusella Walk. : Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1883, p. 354. 



Nelson, a series (Sunley) ; Wellington, one specimen (Hudson). Common 

 in New South Wales and Victoria, on trunks of Eucalyptus. I suspect the 

 larva feeds in the bark. If this is so, the species might have been introduced 

 with trees, but I should not expect to find it on saplings such as would be 

 transplanted. 



TiNEIDAE. 



Opogona comptella Walk. : Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1897, p. 416. 



Nelson, in February (Sunley). Common in south-east Australia. Its 

 larval habits are unknown, but the larvae of other species of the genus 

 feed in dead woody fibre, in such varied situations as the stems of plants 

 .and the nests of Termites (white ants). 



PART II. 



[Read before the Wellington Philoscphical Society, 5th October, 1910.] 



For the specimens here described I am principally indebted to my valued 

 correspondents Messrs. G. V. Hudson, A. Philpott, and R. M. Sunley, but 

 have also discovered one or two overlooked species from my own collec- 

 tion. 



Caradrinidae. 

 Dasygaster Gn. 



This genus, allied to Leucania, is recognisable by the abdomen, which 

 appears unusually thick from being expanded at the sides with fringes 

 of dense hair, longer in <^ ; it has a dorsal crest on basal segment. The 

 genus is characteristic of Australia, and includes half a dozen species, of 

 which one has now been found in New Zealand. 



Dasygaster hollandiae Gn. 



Dasygaster hollandiae Gn., Noct., vol. 1, p. 201 ; [[Hamps. Cat., 

 vol. 5, p. 476. D. leucanioides, ib., p. 202. Graphiph.ora jacilis 

 Walk., Cat., vol. 11, p. 745. 



One specimen received from Mr. A. Philpott, taken at Waipori in 

 January, 1889. The species is common in south-east Australia and Tas- 

 mania, and is doubtless a recent immigrant to New Zealand, very possibly 

 accidentally introduced by man. I should add that the specimen has lost 

 its abdomen, but I showed it to Sir George Hampson, and we are agreed 

 as to its identity. 



