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towards apes sometimes suffused with fuscous. Legs whitish 

 ochreous, anterior tibiae fuscous. Fore wings moderately broad, 

 triangular, costa at first slightly, on posterior half strongly arched, 

 apex almost acute, hind margin with upper half excavated, lower 

 half sinuate, so that there is formed a bhint rounded median j)ro- 

 jection ; varying from light yellow ochreous or reddish ochreous to 

 rather dark fuscous, often with these colours irregularly mixed and 

 suffused, sometimes slightly purplish-tinged; lines tolerably dis- 

 tinct, dark fuscous ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-thu*d of 

 inner margin, dilated beneath ; second from three-fourths of costa 

 to two-thirds of inner margin, tolerably parallel to hind margin, 

 irregularly subdentate ; sometimes a small pale ochreous-margined 

 spot before first line beneath costa ; a triangular white spot on 

 middle of costa, its apex cut off by a pale ochreous streak, some- 

 times partially or wholly obsolete ; a very small white spot on 

 costa at two-thirds ; second line preceded on costal thu'd by three 

 or four partially confluent variable small white spots, sometimes 

 wholly obsolete ; cilia greyish ochreous mixed with fuscous, with 

 two dark fuscous lines. Hind wings sinuate below apex ; pale 

 yellow ochreous ; a grey discal dot, and sometimes a second beyond 

 it ; generally a grey line about two-thirds, tolerably parallel to 

 hind margin ; sometimes hind margin more or less suffused with 

 dark gi-ey ; cilia as in fore wmgs. 



A very variable species, of peculiar appearance. 



Auckland, Palmerston, Christchurch, and Dunedin, 

 New Zealand ; common in December, January, and 

 March. 



Metallaecha, n. g. 



Forehead with an obtuse truncate-conical or elongate flattened 

 projection. Ocelli present. Tongue well developed. Antennae 

 three-fourths of fore wings, in male filiform, slender, evenly 

 ciliated (^ — %). Labial palpi moderate, straight, porrected, 2nd 

 joint with long projecting scales beneath, terminal jomt concealed. 

 Maxillary palpi moderate, filiform. Posterior tibiae with outer 

 middle-spurs one-thhd to one-half, outer end-spurs one-half of 

 inner. Abdomen elongate, in male with short anal tuft ; valves 

 retracted. Fore wings with vein 11 moderate, rather obhque. 

 Hind wings as broad as fore wings ; 3, 4, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to before 

 middle. 



A genus of beautiful species, distinguished from 

 Eurycreon by the retracted valves and filiform maxillary 

 palpi, but otherwise very closely allied. 



