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and posterior half obscurely marked with undefined whitish 

 strigulse, partly edged with blackish ; second discal stigma 

 round, blackish, sometimes with a smaller similar dot before 

 and above it ; two or three short whitish strigulse from costa 

 posteriorly, in S very undefined, in $ longer and blackish- 

 edged : cilia fuscous, on termen white with a blackish basal 

 line. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey, darker in $ . 



Invercargill, in damp situations on sandhills, in October 

 (Philpott) ; three specimens. A distinct species, allied to the 

 following. 



Glyphifteryx aulogramma, n. sp. 



? . 15-16 mm. Head and thorax light shining bronzy- 

 ochreous. Palpi ochreous- whitish, second joint with two black 

 subapical rings, terminal joint with black anterior line. An- 

 tennae and abdomen dark fuscous. Fore wings elongate, narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex acute, termen faintly sinuate, very 

 oblique ; 7 and 8 stalked ; light shining bronzy-ochreous : 

 costal edge whitish towards middle ; a whitish-ochreous streak- 

 along submedian fold from ^, variably extended posteriorly, 

 and sometimes undefined whitish streaks on veins posteriorly, 

 the interspaces sometimes fuscous-tinged ; five silvery-grey- 

 whitish fuscous-edged diversely oblique streaks from posterior 

 half of costa, and two from about tornus. first costal connected 

 with first tornal by some black scales, second tornal partly 

 black-edged and subconfluent with fourth costal in a straight 

 line : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings dark grey, posteriorly 

 blackish-irrorated ; cilia grey, round costa and apex grey-whitish. 



Invercargill, in damp situations on sandhills, in October 

 (Philpott) ; two specimens. Allied to transversella. Walk., 

 but a much less brilliant insect. 



Simaethis exocha, n. sp. 



^ . 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey-whitish mixed 

 with blackish. Antennae pale grey, ringed with blackish. Ab- 

 domen fuscous, segmental margins mixed with whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, moderate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; 7 and 8 

 connate ; olive-fuscous, costa and dorsum broadly suffused 

 with dark fuscous ; basal area irrorated with whitish except 

 a narrow fascia preceding first line ; first line whitish, acutely 

 angulated near costa, followed by a very irregular fascia of whitish 

 irroration, which sends a triangular projection above middle 

 to centre of disc ; second line white, sharply defined, running 

 from middle of costa to J of disc, thence acutely angulated to 

 beyond middle of dorsum, somewhat sinuate inwards towards 



