'11 '1 Mr. E. Meyrick's descriptions of 



SCOPARIAD.E. 



Scoparia, The. 

 Scoparia chordactis, n. s. 

 $ i 23 ram. Head whitish, behind eyes fuscous. Labial palpi 2, 

 grey-whitish, terminal joint concealed in scales of second. 

 Maxillary palpi dark i'uscous, apex broadly whitish. Antennae 

 grey, joints somewhat incised, ciliations \. Thorax light 

 fuscous, mixed with grey-whitish on back. (Abdomen broken.) 

 Legs whitish, anterior pair fuscous. Fore wings elongate, 

 posteriorly gradually somewhat dilated, costa almost straight, 

 apex obtuse, hind margin rather oblique, rounded beneath ; pale 

 ochreous-brownish, irregularly suffused with white, except on a 

 cloudy median longitudinal streak from base to hind margin, 

 becoming well-defined posteriorly ; a fine black median longi- 

 tudinal line from base to two-fifths ; orbicular represented by a 

 short black longitudinal line, claviform by a shorter blackish 

 mark ; reniform barely perceptible as an S-shaped outline, its 

 middle marked with a cloudy blackish dot ; veins posteriorly 

 marked here and there with blackish, especially on median 

 streak ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, basal half obscurely barred 

 with white. Hind wings H, pale whitish-grey, thinly scaled ; 

 cilia white. 



Straits of Magellan ; one specimen, received from 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N. Interesting because approaching 

 nearest in character to some of the larger New Zealand 

 species; perhaps most allied to S. panopla, but that 

 species is much more strongly marked. 



CRAMBIDiE. 



Ceambus, F. 



Crambus signifer, Walk. 



Thiallela signif era, Walk., 120; Araxes admigratella, 

 ib., 192 ; A. ctesella, ib., 193; Crambus troglody- 

 tellus, Snell. T. v. E., 1872, 103, pi. viii., 6." 



£ , 12 — 15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white, sometimes 

 somewhat irrorated with pale ochreous or fuscous. Labial 

 palpi 3, wbite, with obscure dark fuscous bars before and beyond 

 middle. Maxillary palpi white. Antenna? pale greyish-ochreous, 

 ciliations }. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged. 

 Legs white, anterior pair and base of tarsal joints fuscous 



