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patch and a series of internervular clashes black ; 

 secondaries sordid-white, traversed by slender brown 

 lines, the discal and submarginal lines, which are den- 

 tate-sinuate, united upon the veins to black dots and 

 dashes ; all the wings with a marginal series of straight 

 linear dashes, only separated by the veins ; fringe white, 

 spotted with red-brown ; body pale brown ; thorax 

 greyish ; abdomen with two dark brown bands ; under 

 surface pale cupreous, sericeous ; all the wings with 

 conspicuous black disco-cellular spots ; lines and other 

 markings less distinct than above; primaries with bronze- 

 brown apical patch ; no internervular dashes. Expanse 

 of wings, 26 mm. 



"From Keed's collection."— T. E. 



The following species has pectinated antennae, and 

 therefore is referable to Guenee's New Zealand genus 

 Helastia : — 



Helastia, Guence. 



100. Helastia corralensis, n. s. 



Leaden grey ; wings crossed by numerous irregularly 

 undulated parallel darker lines, blackish on the pri- 

 maries, but indistinct on the secondaries ; a black mar- 

 ginal line, interrupted by snow-white dots at the ex- 

 tremities of the nervures ; fringe slightly brassy, tra- 

 versed by a grey stripe ; primaries with pale buff costal 

 border, almost hidden by the blackish lines, excepting 

 for a square spot just beyond the central belt, the outer 

 limit of which is indicated below this spot by a band 

 rather paler than the ground colour ; basal area rose- 

 red, with the usual black costal dots and subbasal lines ; 

 body brown ; thorax evidently reddish in fresh examples ; 

 wings below leaden grej% the costal border unequally 

 spotted with blackish and white ; a black marginal line 

 followed by a slender white line at the base of the 

 fringe ; a blackish disco -cellular spot ; secondaries with 

 all the lines macular ; a black disco-cellular spot ; mar- 

 gin and fringe as in primaries ; pectus flesh-tinted ; 

 anterior legs above blackish, barred with white ; venter 

 leaden grey. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 



" Corral, in February." — T, E. 



