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apex greyish-tinged and spotted with blackish irroration. Hind- 

 wings pale gi'ey, veins partially dark grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



Invercargill, in January (Philpott) ; one specimen. This, 

 the second known species of the genus, is easily known from the 

 other by the white ground. 



Phaloniad.e. 

 Heterocrossa iophaea, n. sp. 



? . 18-19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous ir- 

 rorated with whitish, face and palpi internally pale ochreous, 

 palpi 4. Abdomen gi"ey, two basal segments whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen almost straight, oblique ; dark fuscous irrorated 

 with whitish, sometimes more or less mixed with pale ochreous ; a 

 series of small dark spots along costa ; tufts brownish-ochreous 

 suffusedly edged with black and posteriorly margined with 

 whitish, viz., two near base sometimes surrounded with ochre- 

 ous suffusion, a transverse angulated series beyond ^, and 

 five arranged round middle of disc, enclosed space sometimes 

 blackish ; a more or less defined angulated dark subterminal 

 line : cilia rather dark fuscous irrorated with whitish. Hind- 

 wnngs grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Invercargill, amongst bush, from October to February 

 (Philpott) ; four specimens. Much the darkest species of the 

 genus. 



Heterocrossa gonosemana, Meyr. 



Further material has convinced me that epjmiana, Meyr., 

 is only a variety of this species, and must sink accordingly. 



Gelechiad.^. 

 Gelechia acrodactyla, n. sp. 



3 . 15-17 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish ; basal joint, lower third of second joint, and svibapical 

 ring of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae serrulate, pu- 

 bescent, pale ochreous dotted with dark fuscous. Thorax 

 whitish-ochreous, tinged or irrorated with brownish. Ab- 

 domen grey. Forew^ings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, termeJi rounded, rather strongly oblique ; w^hitish- 

 ochreous, irregularly irrorated with brown ; plical and first 

 discal stigmata rather large, blackish, plical rather before first 

 discal ; brown irroration forms a suffused costal patch beyond 

 middle, and a narrow terminal fascia ; cilia whitish-ochreous,. 

 with dark-grey subbasal line. Hindwings over 1, grey ; cilia, 

 pale whitish-ochreous, with, grey subbasal line. 



