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7. Pterophoridae. 



Maxillary palpi obsolete. Forewings usually fissured, forming two 

 (rarely three or four) segments, 8 and 9 usually stalked. Hindwings 

 without defijied pecten of hairs on lower margin of cell, on lower surface 

 with a double row of short dark spine-like scales on lower margin of cell, 

 5 remote from 4, 7 remote from 6, shortly approximated to 8 beyond origin, 

 wing usually figured, forming three segments. 



A considerable family of very general distribution. 



29. Platyptilia Hiib. 

 Platyptilia Hiib., Verz., 429 (1826) ; type, gonodactyla Schiff. 



Forehead usually with tuft of scales. Forewings bifid, segments 

 moderate, 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings trifid, third segment with black 

 scales in dorsal cilia, sometimes barely traceable. 



An extensive and cosmopolitan genus. The larvae are usually attached 

 to species of Compositae. 



184. P. isoterma Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1909, 10. 



Wellington. 



185. P. heliastis Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1885, 129. 



Mount Arthur, Castle Hill, Lake Wakatipu. 



186. P. falcatalis Walk., Cat., 30, 931 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1885, 



128 : repletalis Walk., Cat., 30, 931. 



North and South Islands, common ; up to 3,600 ft. 



187. P. aeolodes Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, 278 ; Trans. N.Z. 



Inst., 1909, 10. 



Wellington, Invercargill, Chatham Islands, Auckland Island. 



188. P. deprivatalis Walk., Cat., 30, 946 : haasti Feld., Eeis. Novar., 



pi. 140, 58 ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1885, 128. 



Hamilton, Christchurch, Otira River, Lake Wakatipu, Invercargill. 



189. P. campsiptera Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1907, 112. 



Lake Wakatipu. 



190. P. epotis Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, 231 ; Trans. N.Z. Inst., 



1911, 73. 



Mount Arthur, Humboldt Eange (3,600 ft.). 



30. Alucita Linn. 

 Alucita Linn., Syst. Nat., 542 (1758) ; type, pentadactyla Linn. 



Forehead without tuft. Forewings bifid, segments narrow, 2 some- 

 times absent, 3 absent, 8-10 absent, 11 sometimes absent. Hindwings 

 trifid, third segment without black scales in dorsal cilia ; 3 absent. 



Fairly extensive, but mainly located round the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean ; some of the species range very widely. The New Zealand species 

 seem to be of Indo-Malayan affinity, but are all endemic. 



191. A. monospilalis Walk., Cat., 30, 950; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1885, 



124 : patruelis Feld., Reis. Novar., pi. 140, 56. 



Whangarei, Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Otira River, Christ- 

 church, Dunedin. 



192. A. lycosema Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1885, 124. 



Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. 



