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terminal fascia, on which the second and subterminal lines appear 

 as whitish shades confluent in middle and sometimes partially 

 obsolete : ciUa whitish-ochreous, tips whitish, with narrow basal 

 and broader postmedian grey shades. Hindwings without hairs 

 in cell ; pale greyish-ochreous, with suffused dark-grey terminal 

 fascia ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, with grey basal line. 



Lake Wakatipu (Hudson) ; two specimens. An elegant spe- 

 cies, intermediate between cataxesta and tetracyla ; to the naked 

 eye obviously bluish-tinged. 



Scoparia augastis, n. sp. 



(? . 28-29 mm. Head fuscous, crown mixed with whitish. 

 Palpi 3, fuscous, base white. Antennse fuscous, ciliations h. 

 Thorax light fuscous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Fore- 

 wings very elongate, gradually dilated, costa posteriorly gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique ; 

 rather light fuscous, more or less irrorated finely with whitish ; 

 costa and all veins marked by more or less distinct somewhat 

 darker fuscous lines : cilia whitish, with two fuscous lines, anterior 

 interrupted. Hindwings with long hairs in cell ; very pale 

 brassy- ochreous ; cilia whitish, with very faint greyish subbasal 

 line. 



Invercargill, in March, on flowers of Senecio after dark (Phil- 

 pott) ; three specimens. Very distinct, perhaps nearest to the 

 Australian nephelitis. 



Pterophorid.^. 



Platyptilia campsiptera, n. sp. 



^ . 17 mm. Head and thorax yellowish- white, metapleura 

 with an oblique black streak, frontal cone of scales moderately 

 long. Palpi 3J, white, apical § externally irrorated with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen pale whitish-yellow, with a black lateral dot 

 near base, and a few black lateral scales posteriorly. Legs white, 

 banded with dark fuscous. Forewings cleft from |, upper seg- 

 ment rather narrow, apex produced, pointed, lower segment 

 much broader, posteriorly dilated ; whitish, tinged with pale 

 yellow ; costa towards base shortly strigulated with fuscous 

 irroration ; a small triangular fuscous spot irrorated with dark 

 fuscous on costa before fissure, not reaching across first segment, 

 and a smaller similar mark on costa between this and apex : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, spotted with fuscous round lower angle 

 of first segment, and upper angle and termen of second, with a 

 small black scale-tooth on dorsum at §. Hindwings reddish- 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish, slightly reddish-tinged, with a blackish 

 basal mark on lower half of termen of first segment, and mere 

 traces of black scales in middle of dorsum of third segment. 



