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elongate, hardly dilated, costa slightly bent before middle, apex 

 obtuse, termen faintly sinuate beneath apex, bowed, obhque ; 

 pale brownish, partially suffused irregularly with whitish, costa 

 and dorsum strigulated with dark fuscous ; outer edge of basal 

 patch indicated by a blackish line in disc, obsolete towards ex- 

 tremities ; an irregular incurved fuscous streak marked with 

 black from f of costa to below middle of disc, followed by whitish 

 suffusion ; an irregular dark-fuscous spot above tornus, and some 

 dark-fuscous strigulfe towards lower part of termen : cilia grey- 

 whitish mixed with dark grey. Hindwings fuscous, strigulated 

 with darker ; some undefined ochreous-yellowish suffusion in 

 centre of disc and towards costa in middle ; cilia pale grey, with 

 dark-grey subbasal line. 



Lake Wakatipu (Hudson) ; one specimen. 



Pyrgotis tornota, n. sp. 



$ . 18 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous sprinkled with 

 dark ferruginous. Palpi 2i, whitish-ochreous, irrorated wit 

 dark ferruginous. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa strongly arched to- 

 wards base, faintly sinuate in middle, posteriorly almost straight, 

 apex obtuse, termen concave, little oblique ; reddish-brown, 

 suffusedly mixed with pale leaden-grey, and strigulated with 

 whitish-vellowish ; a few minute dots of blackish scales, especi- 

 ally on dorsum ; a moderately broad curved darker streak, suf- 

 fusedly irrorated with yellow-ochreous, from \ of costa to below 

 middIe*of disc, thence curved evenly upwards, confluent towards 

 costa with a round similar blotch on middle of termen, so that 

 the ground-colour appears to form a narrow whitish-edged pro- 

 jection upwards between them : cilia reddish-brown, darker 

 towards apex, tips whitish-ochreous. Hindwings whitish, with 

 a few grey strigulse on dorsal half ; cilia whitish. 



Invercargill, in August (Philpott) ; one specimen. The 

 whitish hindwings are a special characteristic. 



Adoxophyes conditana, Walk. 



I have received from Mr. Philpott three examples of a curious 

 melanic form of the male of this species, stated to be common 

 near Invercargill. The forewings are mainly suffused with dark 

 purplish-grey irrorated or strigulated with blackish, except 

 some small variable whitish spots towards middle of dorsum 

 and sometimes towards apex and termen ; whilst the hind- 

 wings are densely irrorated with blackish. I at first thought 

 it a distinct species, but afier careful comparison with my long 

 series of varieties of this extraordinarily variable species am 

 satisfied that it is onlv a melanic southern form ; I have not 



