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fuscous, tips white, round torn us lighter. Hind-wings elongate, 

 varying from whitish to grey, towards termen usually darker- 

 suffused ; in the most strongly marked specimen there are suffused 

 darker post-median and prsetornal shades as in fore- wings; cilia grey, 

 exti'eme tips white. 



Seaward Moss, Invercargill ; described from one New 

 Zealand and twelve Australian examples. This species 

 was accidentally omitted from my paper on the Australian 

 species of this family, but it has long been known to me, 

 being in fact one of the commoner Australian species, 

 occurring at Duaringa and Brisbane, Queensland ; Sydney 

 and Blackheath, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria ; 

 Blackwood, South Australia; Perth and Albany, West 

 Australia; from September to January. I have not 

 however previously seen it from New Zealand. It is 

 extremely variable in the depth of colouring and intensity 

 of marking. 



SELIDOSEMID.E. 



Selidosema pungata, Feld. 



Selidosema pungata, Feld., Reis. Nov., pi. exxxi, 23 ; S. 



fascialata, Philpott, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., 1902, 248, 



pi. xxxii, 7. 



£. 40 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous. Fore-wings 



somewhat elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, termen bowed, 



little oblique ; light ochreous-brown, with scattered short fuscous 



strigulas marked with a few black scales ; a rather broad dark 



fuscous median band, edged narrowly anteriorly and more broadly 



and suffusedly posteriorly with ochreous-whitish, anterior edge 



slightly curved, posterior rounded-prominent near costa and more 



broadly below middle, thus concave above middle ; subterminal line 



waved, ochreous-whitish, edged with dark fuscous suffusion, rather 



broadly interrupted in middle, posterior marginal suffusion running 



to termen beneath apex instead of to costa. Hind-wings light 



ochreous-yellow, towards termen deeper and more ochreous. 



One specimen; according to Mr. Philpott, this species 

 occurs in several localities in Southland in February and 

 March, and the female does not differ from the male ex- 

 cept in being somewhat paler. It is very similar to 

 S. productata, but constantly distinguished by the peculiar 

 form of the posterior margin of median band of fore-wings. 

 Not knowing of the existence of this species, I formerly 

 attributed Felder's figure to prodnvtata. 



