228 Mr. E. Meyrick's Notes on 



dorsum by a wedge-shaped yellow mark ; a yellow costal strigula 

 just before apex, terminated by a white dot ; cilia dark grey, with 

 an irregular white basal line round apex and upper part of termen 

 (imperfect). Hind-wings and cilia dark fuscous. 



I took a specimen on Mount Arthur at 3000 feet in 

 January, and have received a second from Mr. Hudson, 

 but neither is in very good condition. The species is 

 nearly allied to •pyrsophanes, but much smaller, darker, 

 and with more developed yellow markings. 



pybaustim;. 



Scoparia meliturga, sp. n. 



$ $ . 17-19 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Palpi 3, dark fuscous, whitish-mixed, white towards 

 base beneath. Antenna? dark fuscous, ciliations in £ \. Abdomen 

 pale grey, more or less suffused with ochreous-whitish. Fore-wings 

 elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly 

 sinuate, rather oblique, rounded beneath ; ochreous-whitish, more 

 or less suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish in disc, sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous ; first line ochreous-white, edged posteriorly with dark 

 fuscous suffusion, slightly curved, indented in middle ; orbicular 

 and claviform usually quite undefined or represented only by some 

 dark fuscous suffusion, seldom orbicular centred with an ochreous- 

 whitish dot; discal spot 8-shaped, ochreous-whitish or whitish- 

 ochreous, more or less outlined finely with dark fuscous ; second 

 line ochreous-white, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous, moderately 

 curved outwards from \ to f , sharply indented at \ ; terminal area 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, subterminal line thick, suffused, 

 ochreous-whitish, touching second line in middle, sometimes 

 slenderly interrupted above this ; an interrupted ochreous-white 

 terminal line : cilia whitish, with dark grey interrupted anterior 

 and light grey posterior line. Hind-wings without long hairs in 

 disc ; pale whitish-grey, suffused with grey posteriorly ; cilia whitish, 

 with grey subbasal shade. 



Six specimens, Auckland and Wellington, taken by 

 myself in December and January ; I have also received 

 the species from Mr. Hudson. Until lately I had mistaken 

 this for a form of S. philerga, but am now satisfied of its 

 distinctness; it is a neater and smoother-looking insect, 

 always recognizable by the well-marked yellowish tinge ; 

 moreover in &. philerga the orbicular is normally white 



